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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: "prince morgan" <p_stb02_morgan@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:13:01 +0000
Subject: Assistance Needed

Dear
It is my pleasure to write you after much
consideration since telephone communication can not be
suitable enough to communicate to you at first.
Being the only son of my father, late Emmanuel
Morgan
from GHANA, My father was limited liability
Cocoa and Gold merchant in GHANA before his
untimely death.
After his business trip to UNITED KINGDOM ,to
negotiate on a
cocoa and Gold business he wanted to go and sell
there.
A Week after he came back from UNITED KINGDOM, he was
attacked
with my mother by unknown assassins, which my mother
died instantly but my father died after five days in a
private hospital on that faithful afternoon. I didn't
know that my father was going to leave me after I had
lost my mother.
But before he DIED, it was as if he knew he was going
to die. my father, MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE
he disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of
$21,800,000,00 US Dollars (TWENTEEN ONE MILLION EIGHT
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in a finance company in the
United Kingdom.
That the money was gotten from his cocoa and Gold
which he took to uk for sales.
Though, according to my father he deposited the money
in a finance company and handed to me all the relevant
documents of the deposited money and instructed me to
seek for a reliable and trust worthy partner for a
life time investment abroad.
Therefore, I am soliciting for your assistance to
help
me get this Box out from the finance company in the
United Kingdom.
If possible you can go over there (United
Kingdom)and
transfer the fund to your account so that we can
invest it in any meaningful/lucrative business in your
country because this is my only hope and source of
livelihood. I am anxiously waiting to hear from you so
that we can discuss the modalities of this
transaction.
All informations needed is your personal telephone /
fax number , your home address and your personal photo
.
Please kindly contact me through the above email
address immediately for more discussion .
Thanks for your kind attention.
Yours sincerely
Prince Morgan.

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