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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Florence" <florece_mouraa@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: florence_mouraa@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:14:55 +0000
Subject: Thabks

ATTN SIR,

I am contacting you with reason that we are going to be of a great use
to
each other.
My name Florence Moura, I am the Daugther of late chief Venanco Moura
before his death, my father was the former foreign minister of my
country
Angola . Before I go into further details.

please be informed that I am writing without any other person's
pre-knowlegde of my contacting you. Therefore i will appreciate same
attitude to be maintained. all through the days before the death of my
father he revealed to me about a some that loged in BANK which he
deposited
with my name in a BANK in Senegal for security reasons the sum of
$8.5Million which was his own share from a sale of Diamond when he
was in the office,

After the burial of my late father, I made frantic effort on the
best way to handle this money, I decide to seek for trustworthy
business
partner.
However, I sincerely ask for your assistance to get this fund
out of the BANK and your share for assisting me will be
15% of the total sum, 7% will be use for upsetting all the
expenses incurred in the course of concluding this venture and the
remaining 78% you will help me to invest it in your country.

I want to assure you that this transactions is 100% risk free.
Incase if you have any question do not hesitate to contact me
as I wait for your favourable response.

Best regards
Florence Moura.

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