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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: "MR.WILLI LAMIN" <willilamin1@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: willilamin2@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:33:16 +0100
Subject: FROM .MR. WILLI LAMIN

Mr.Willi Lamin
Address No A21 Street Medina Dakar
Senegal West Africa.
Email : willilamin@minister.com
Email : willilamin1@mail.com


Hello,

I am Mr. Willi Lmain citizen of Monrovia Liberia am presently staying in Dakar-Senegal in West-Africa under refugee status. I am seeking you as my foreign partner and you will have interest in any investment you finally confirms okay and create ideas on how money will be investe properly manage because i want to live the rest of my life with you and invest with this money.

I shall need your due assistance in transferring the money Nine Million American Dollars becauae the fund is presently deposited with a Fiduciary Company in Europe by my late beloved father and all the legal document that covering this funds is with me here.

I have contacted the management of the company on my arrival here regarding the release of the deposit to me with the legal document that covering this fund , the funds has being approved to be released to me .but deu to my rufee status here i dont have original document to oppen bank account where the funds will transfer.

My priority is to transfer the money to your position so that i will leave to join you and live the rest of my life with you because i have no father and no mother i loss parents during the War victims in my country.

Looking forward to your response.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Willi lamin.

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