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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: "SMITH CAMPBELL" <smith_campbell@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: smithcampbe@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:53:43 +0800
Subject: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

Dear friend,
Please it`s my pleasure to write for an urgent assistance that will profit both of us if you will be sincerely stright forward and capable in handling the transaction. I`m writing to you now from my sick bed in a very painful sitution that one of my legs has been caught off while the other leg is hanging because i was hitten down by a drunk cap driver here in london.

I often fly in and out of malaysia for a business transaction but due to my condition of health now,i can not be able to make it that`s while i`m contacting you,so please read this mail very carefully and get back to me where you don`t understand.

There`s this animal injection for horses, cattles and other big animals by name TERMACINE XP 1000 that i supply to ventenary farms from saudi arabia and dubia,the farm always send the purchasing doctor to malaysia because that`s the only place i buy the product and supply immediately to the doctor there in malaysia.

I buy the product from malaysian woman at the price of rigget 7,500(four thousand, five hundred ringget)per a carton of ten pieces inside.While I supply to the ventenary doctor at the price of $4500usd(three thousand united states dollars) per a
carton.

And the farm always need 50 to 100 cartons of the product in every month they need it,so when u add up the ex-change rate of dollars to your country`s currency,you know the profit i`m making per carton in a trip of this trasaction.

Upon your response,i will pass over the woman`s(seller)phone number to conclud with her for the product because the farm have already contacted me for purchase with their
qoutation and price list which i will also scan for your persual.

Please bear in mind that constant and early contact is good for us to reach on a solid agreement because this is one of my best contacts and i will not like to lose it. Meanwhile,i will be sending you my bank account for whatever is the percentage we concluded because I'm seriously in need now because of my hosiptal bills.

Regards as i wait for your urgent response.

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