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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: "williams john" <williamsjohn02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: williamsjohn@computermail.net
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:00:49 -1000
Subject: PATNERSHIP

Dear Friend,
I am williams john taylor son of the former Liberian President Charles
Taylor.as you must have being aware my family presently now in
Calabar.Cross River state Nigeria.
My father .president Charles Taylor quit office On Novemeber 12,2003 when
the rebel fighting to topple his government have come too close to
Monrovia.the capital city of Liberia and the American Government which
hitheto supported my father's government advised him to quit to restore
peace in Liberia.
My father was then granted assylum in Nigeria by his friend,President
Olusegun Obasanjo,so since then We have been living in Nigeria
You see during my father's reign as Liberian President I was able to make
some millions of dollars via the sales of Diamond to the world as a result
of the prefential treatment I had during my father's tenure.
I succeeded in lodging some millions of Dollars oversea and now decide to
invest about $25m usd on any lucrative bussiness abroad and for my plan to
be effective I now want to seek for a good,trustworthy and God fearing
foreigner who will be as my partner and will be 100% in control of this
investment while i will operate underground because for now I do not want
people to know I own such project not even my family.As i told you we are on
assylum in Nigeria , if you wish to be my partner you can get back to me via
my personal;
e-mail address as below:
williams_john20t@yahoo.com
For me to know your plans and what I need to do to speed up the processing.
Thanks and God bless.
williams john taylor

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