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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: "james dike" <j_dike22@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:06:43 -0400
Subject: Greetings:

PLEASE REPLY THROUGH THIS EMAIL j_dike4@o2.pl

Greetings:

You may be surprised to receive my letter, however, I got your contact from
the Chamber of Commerce and Trade. I have decided to contact you for
confidential, urgent and rewarding joint business.

My name is JAMES DIKE, I was a Personal Assistant to the
Late Congo President, LAURENT KABILA, who was assasinated in February and my
aim of writing to you is because of the need for a trusted and honest
person, who I can entrust the sum of US$12,800,000 (Twelve million, eight
hundred thousand USDollars).
Source of the money: I and the late president secured this money in a
security firm in Accra Ghana, in my name before his death.

Now that he is late, I want to transfer the money out of Africa, for
investment in your country, I can not travel out of where I am on asylum,
hence I am asking for your assistance to have this money in your care
pending when I will secure travel documents to come over to your country.If
you accept this offer we shall share the
money as follows: for you, 25%, 75% for me. I have all the title documents
to the fund which I can transfer to you to enable you have assess to it. Be
assured that is risk-free and legitimate.

Please advise me on your position by this e-mail j_dike4@o2.pl
immedaitely, Please I await your
prompt reply.

MR JAMES DIKE.

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