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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: "Captain James" <capjm16@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: captjamesusa@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:54:51 +0100
Subject: A US marine needs your assistance

Dear Friend,

I am Captain Brain James W. of the US Marine Force on Monitoring and Peace
–keeping mission in Baghdad-Iraq. On the 3rd day of December 2006, we were
alerted on the sudden presence of some Terrorists camping in a suburb not
too far from Karbala here in Iraq . After Immediate intervention, we
captured three (3) of the Terrorists, twenty-six (26) were killed leaving
seven (7) injured.

In the process of torture they confessed being rebels for late Ayman
al-Zawahiri and took us to a cave in Karbala which served as their camp.
Here we recovered several guns, bombs and other Ammunitions including some
boxes among which two contains nuclear weapons, one filled with hard
drugs(cocaine) and the other four to my amazement contain some US Dollars
amounting to $7.2M after I and two of my junior intelligent officers counted
them. I however instructed them to keep this in high secrecy.

I am in keen need of a “Reliable and Trustworthy” person like you who would
receive, secure and protect these boxes containing the US Dollars for me
up on till my assignment elapses in here in Iraq. I assure and promise to
give you 14% of this fund, however feel free to negotiate what you wish to
have as your percentage in this business..

Please assure me of your keeping this topmost secret to protect my job with
the US Monitoring and Peace-Keeping mission.
Sincere regards,
Capt.Brain James

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