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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: "James Kaku Eyadema" <kakulws22@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kakulws22@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:16:47 +0000
Subject: FROM JAMES

ATTEN: MY FRIEND

My name’s Mr. James Kaku Eyadema, the third child of Mr. G Eyadema. Former
president of Togo who died recently. It might be of surprise to you where I
got your contact address; I got your e-mail address through the Netherlands
Chambers of commerce and industries directory, immediately after my
father's death, my elder brother took over as the president of the Republic
Togo but though we are not of the same mother.

After the death of my father, my mother and I with my younger sister decided
to move out of Togo for the safety of our lives. This is because my elder
brother was seeking how to kill me and my younger sister so that he can
enrich all my father wealth, we therefore decided to move out of Togo to a
Europe country for the safety of our live. We took along with us the
certificate of deposit
My father kept in the safe in my mother's house which he used to deposit the
sum of
US$40 Million United States Dollars in the Netherlands. The
funds’re presently being kept away in the secret vaults of a private
security firm based in Amsterdam.
The official of the firm believes they’re helping us in keeping our
personal Valuables, not realizing, that it's money. I and my mother have
decided to contact any reliable overseas firm/person who could assist us to
transfer this money out of The Netherlands, because we as asylum
seeker here in Amsterdam cannot open a non-resident account through which
this
fund will be channeled out so we want to front you as the beneficiary of the
said funds
So that we can move the funds to your country where it will be safe for us
to invest without problems if you are willing to assist us let me know so
that we can get started.
Waiting to hear from you
Truly Yours
James

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