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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: Okito Anslem <anokito02@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: anokito2005@yahoo.ca
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:34:58 +0100 (BST)
Subject: From: Barr. Okito


Greetings to you,

My name is BARISTER ANSLEM OKITO the attorney of the former president of Liberia MR CHARLES TAYLOR who is presently in political asylum now in Calabar, Nigeria.

Before his departure to Nigeria my client handed over to me some documents containing his deposit in one of the security company here in Ghana, and he instructed me to move this consignment out of Ghana through a diplomatic courier to Amsterdam Netherlands.


The consignment contains money worth of ($20.8) Twenty million eight hundred thousand United States Dollars in the two trunk boxes right now with the diplomat in Amsterdam.

I am now seeking your assistance to help me collect this consignment out from the diplomat and my client has agreed to compensate you with percentage of 30%for your noble assistance and 5% for any expenses that may incur, like you traveling from your country to Amsterdam to meet the diplomat and also assisting to pay the diplomat charges and demurrage that might have incurred for the safe keeping in Amsterdam and the remaining 65% will be for his family and you will also assist him invest it in a very lucrative business in any where in the western world.



Your urgent response and assist is highly needed as I am informing you to keep this deal very confidentially as you have to know that my client is still in political problem with his country and the country will be interested to know where my client kept some of his assets. As soon as you confirm your interest all further information will be passed to you as to enable you proceed in getting this transaction executed.

Thanks and my kind regards



Yours faithfully



BARR ANSLEM OKITO

ATTORNEY AT LAW

TEL 233-243251307








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