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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: kabiru kunta kunta <kabirukuta.shaw@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:41:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: YOUR ATTENSITION IS NEEDED.


Dear sir ,
In my search for an honest, reliable and sincere business partner, i got your contact from internet and i ask if you can be trusted not to break an agreement? My name is kabiru kuta, the son of Mr. Bugiba kuta of blessed memory from Zimbabwe,East Africa. During the crises against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supports of President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrender all farms to his party members and his followers. My father was One of the most successful multy farmers in our country and because he did not support Mugabe`s ideas, Mugabes supporters invaded his farm and burnt everything in the farm, killing him and made away with a lot of items in my fathers farm. Before his death, my father had deposited in a bank the sum of (USD $12.5 MILLION). After the death of my father, I re-located to Dakar in Senegal in West Africa under political asylum as a refugee to seek for foreign
partner overseas that will assist me to receive the money in the bank in his or her account because i have made up my mind to live in your country. As an asylum seeker i am not allowed to operate any Bank Account within DAKAR-SENEGAL. I accept to offer you 7% of the total money for your assistance as soon as the money get`s into your account while 5% will be set out for any expences that may be incurred in the course of this transaction both local and international. I want truth and honest to be our watch word in this transaction and please treat this transaction with strictly confidentiality for successful out come of it. All I want you to do is to furnish me with your telephone number and your private e-mail address for easy and urgent communication.
Please note that this transaction is 100% Percent risk free and requires absolute confidentiality. Thanks and remain blessed.Pls.if you are honest and could be trusted then do help me ,i will be looking forward to hear from u soonext,take care and remain blessed.
Best regards,
kabiru kuta.


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