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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: "alimsailik77@go.com" <alimsailik77@go.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:06:45 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE PLS






Dear Friend,Good day. I decided to contact you after I went through my father’s file. Hence I confide in you. I sincerely seek your assistance. My name is Alim Sailik, I am 22 years old who his entire family was wiped out, as a result of Egyptian Airlines that crashed into the Red Sea in cairo and I am the only son. Before the accident, my Father deposited the sum of US$50,000,000 (Fifty Million United States dollars) in a Security Company in my name. This fund was deposited as diplomatic properties, the company do not know the real content of the deposit consignment.I fled to Netherlands after the death of my parents with all the documents that covers the fund and I seek for refuge, as an asylum seeker,As an asylum seeker, it is not in my legal capacity to put up claims to this fund. This is why I need your assistance as my late father’s foreign partner to put up claims to this fund.I will forward to you all the documents that cover this fund, but you will need to provide an account where the fund can be transferred.I will offer you 40% of the fund for your assistance and efforts while 10% will be mapped out for any expenses that we may incurred during this transaction.If interested and capable to assist me in this transaction, please get back to me immediately.You are to send me your telephone and fax number.I look forward to a favorable response from you through my email contacts below.E-mail: alimsailik@excite.comBest regards,Mr. Alim Sailik.

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