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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: "jenif" <jnnfr_benson@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jnnfr_benson@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:34:29 +0200
Subject: from jeniffer

Sir,
Good day,i am pleased that this mail will get to you in a perfect and wonderful health condition.However permit me a space to air my reason of contacting you,I am Miss jeniffer benson 28years of age,a sierra_leonian, brought up as a farmer in the farming Community ,and now that my father has passed away,i am sincerely looking for a very peacefull and reliable country were i will happily secure a very big plot of land for farm investment,at the cost of nothing to you,but i will be very willing to take up the expenses as i have the fund mapped out for this investment from the total share that was assigned to me from my fathers accumulation of wealth,all you need to offer is to promise that you will be acting as a proximity for me in handling out the situations of things as regards this investment,i will happily be investing the total sum of $1.200,000.00 (One million and two hundred thousand United States Dollars).Should you be willing and i!
nterested to help secure this plot of land that will be used for this investment for me,i shall order the remittance of half of this money into your care which is $600,000.00,(six hundred thousand United States dollars).I am looking forward to read from you as soon as you are in posession of this proposal.
Lovely yours.
Miss jeniffer

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