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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • duncanmartins@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Duncan <duncanvision@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: duncanvision1@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:06:57 +0000
Subject: Re:Help in time of need God will bless you


Dearest Friend,
I am very sorry if I have bothered you by my email. I am Duncan Martins William .I am 18 years old boy from Angola.

My father's name is Carlos William who was very wealthy dealing in oil products and gold and dimon from Angola to Belgium and France.

My mother's name is Sheila from Ireland but died soon after giving birth to me from Cancer. I am the only child. My father took me so special because I am motherless and all that was left for him. Our home was hit by bombs and my father was seriously injured. He was rushed to hospital by some UN staff where he later died. Before he died, he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sum of $10.450 000 (Ten million four hundred
and fifty thousand united states dollars)in a bank in Ghana.

He said he used my name as the next of kin in deposit of the fund. He also explained to me that I should seek for foreigner since Angola is no longer safe to be alone .A foreign country where I will be and the fund transferred to. I am now in Monaco France. Some UN staff brought me here and I am at the refugee camp now. I am not safe here and want to
leave. I have contacted the bank but they said, they need my guardian to apply for the fund because according to the agreement reached with my dad, I must be 25 years before they can release the fund to me.

Please, I am begging you for assistance as follows.
1) To serve as my guardian and manage these fund for me, since I am only 18 years old.
2) To provide a bank account where this money will be transferred into.
3)To make arrangement for me in your country to continue my educational
career and to procure me a residential permit in your country.

I am inclined to offer you 15% of the total sum as a mode of compensation for your effort after the successful transferring of these fund to your nominated account overseas.
Please kindly reply to this mail:duncanmartins@yahoo.com if you are interested in helping me out of my present condition.
I am expecting to hear from you as soon as possible.

God Bless you.
Duncan William

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