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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: "GALADIMA USMAN" <galadimausman@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: gmbello2000@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:48:52 +0000
Subject: HOW ARE YOU MY FRIEND? I HAVE SUCEEDED... I LEFT FOR YOU $3.5 MILLION


ATTN:MY FRIEND,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transfered
under the cooperation of a new partiner from paraguay. Presently i'm in
South Korea for investment projects with my own share of the total
sum.meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assit me in
transffering those funds despite that it failed us somehow.

Now contact my secretary in Nigeria his name is Mr.G.Mohammed Bello and his
email address is :gmbello2000@yahoo.co.uk or phone +234-8025315657 ask him
to send you the total $3.5 million us dollars which i kept for you as a
compensation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this
matter.i appreciated your efforts at that time very much.so feel free and
get intouched with my secretary Mohammed Bello,i instruct him where to send
the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the
joy after all the sufferness at that time.in the moment, i'm very busy here
because of the investment projects which me and the new partiner are having
at hand, finally,remember that i had forwarded instruction to the secretary
on your behalf to receive those money,so feel free to get in touch with him
to send the amount to you without any delay.i will come to setup some
business with you in vietnam ok.

With best regards,
Dr Shamsudeen Usman

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