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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 kazini" <jameskazini21@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jameskazini@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:48:51 +0100
Subject: Your Urgent Response Is Needed Please!!!



Greetings,
You may be surprised to receive my letter. However, I got your
contact as a result of my despirate desire for assistance,though
this mail is unsolicited I pray you to consider it .
INTERNET would not have been the best means of communicating this
offer to you due to the abuse of the internet services, but as a
result of my condition I have no better option , email is faster and
safer as prefered by others, please consider this proposition of
mine. My name is MR. JAMES KAZINI, I was a Personal Assistant to the
Late Democratic Republic Of Congo President; LAURENT KABILA, who was
assasinated.
My aim of writing to you is because of the need for a trusted and
honest person, who I can entrust the sum of US$32,800,000
(thirty two million, eight hundred thousand USDollars).
Source of the money: I and the late president secured this money in
a
security firm, in my name before his death. Now that he is late, I
want to transfer the money out of the security company because of
the insecurity of the money ,for investment in your country, I can not
travel out of the country where I am on asylum,hence I am asking for
your assistance to have this money in your care pending when I will
secure travel documents to come over to your country.
If you accept this offer we shall share the money as follows: for
you 25%, 75% for me. I have the title document to the fund which I
can transfer to you to enable you have access to the money.Be assured
that is risk-free and legitimate. Please advise me on your
position immediately.
I await your prompt reply via this email address:
Best Regards.
MR JAMES KAZINI

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