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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: "Suzzan Sainovic" <suzzansainovic@msn.com>
Reply-To: sarath@di-ve.com
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:49:16 +0000
Subject: FROM:SUZZAN MARIE SAINOVIC

FROM:MRS SUZZAN MARIE SAINOVIC
BELGRADE-SERBIA
EMAIL:sarath@di-ve.com


Dear Sir,
I need your help
I am the wife of Mr. Nicolai Sainovic one of the people of the former
Yugoslavia indicted at the War Crime Tribunal in Hague.
The indictment was politically motivated we must say, but there is nothing
we
can do now but to answer according to the law.
The whole set-up we believe was a package some of the the western world has
provided former Yugoslavia to contend with.
Mr. Slobodan Milutinovic and my husband had kept some funds, American
currencies in a private Bank to enable them take care of rebel problems.
However, now that the country they seeked to protect has turned against
them,
We need to transfer the money out for safety from where
it has been lodged somewhere in Europe.
The fund is in excess of 75million (Seventy Five Million Dollars).
It can be transferred to you under diplomatic immunity or be paid into
offshore accounts through which you will lay possession of it to foster some
investment on our behalf.

Can you help? Are you capable of handling funds? Are you trustworthy? I have
been asked to offer you 25%,for your assistance, Will that be ok?

Please reply to me at the earliest to enable me stop contacting other
persons
for assistance.
Please reply me using only this e-mail address below because it's my
personal
email account:sarath@di-ve.com

MRS SUZZAN MARIE SAINOVIC

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