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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Elizabeth Garan" <philip4freeman1@msn.com>
Reply-To: elizabeth_garang@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:55:09 +0000
Subject: Pls reply asp

Dear Friend,

I am Mrs Elizabeth Garang,,the wife of the Sudan's vice President John Garag
who was killed in an helicopter crash on August 1, 2005 .I am in Benin
republic , where I am taken refugee with my son Philip Garang .

We ran from sundan because the incumbent government of sudan want my son and
i killed because my husband was striving hard For the liberation of southern
sudan.
I want to confide in you if you can assist me to receive a trunk box
of treasure box containing $25,000,000,USD which my late husband deposited
with a diplomatic curier service for onward delivery to purchase arms for
the liberation army .The diplomat is arriving your country in a few days and
i want you to front as my beneficiary to claim this trunk box before i
arrive to your country,and this deposit was made under my son's name as the
next of kin.
This consignment was deposited under class U.P.C meaning uninspected
private consignment that is to say the diplomatic curier service is ignorant
of the true contents of the consignment because,the contents was declared as
an African arts.

Upon request I will scan and send to you the certificate of deposit
for your perusal before the transaction commences.
Considering the effort you will put in the transaction, we are willing to
concede 25% of the money to you as compensation, while remaining75% will be
for i and my son philip .
If you are ready you assist me ,please send me your phone number and your
resident address so that i can forward it to the diplomat as my son's
beneficiary as my i will instruct the officer in charge to deliver the
consignment to you in your place on my behalf if only you are not going to
betray us at the end.
You can visit this website to know more about my later husband.
http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=11050
http://www.sudantribune.com/article_impr.php3?id_article=11050
http://politics.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/080105sudangarangvp&curPhoto=1
http://nazret.com/blogs/blogs/index.php?title=john_garang&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/20/448696
I await to hear from you soon.
Thanks.
Mrs.Elizabeth Garang.

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