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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: "charles" <seikalcharles1@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: seikalcharles2@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:41:44 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP



My name is CHARLES SIEKAL from the republic of sierra leone and i want to seek your hand in a business partnership.
My late father was before his death a known business man who dealt in diamonds and gold in my country sierra leone before the war that broke out in my country and claimed his life and the rest of my house hold.But before he died he deposited some amount of money in a finance company and as the only surviving member of the family the money now belongs to me.But my problem now is that i am still inexperienced and do not know how to invest this money ,hence i contacted you for partnership.
I am asking you to be my over sees partner to help me invest this money because my father before his death warned me not to invest in africa again because of the state of insecurity and series of changes in government in our part of the world.
I will be happy to work together with you in the area of investing this money under your care and supervision ,because i dont have any experience about business so far.
If you are willing to be my partner please reply in mail immediatly so i can give every details you may wish to know.
God be with us
Charles

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