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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: young nana <first_young10@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <young_nana@excite.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:28:19 +0200
Subject: Hello.



Hello. In a brief introduction. My name is Young Nana. from Sierra Leone. I am 20 years old,It is my pleasure to contact you for the first time and believing that it will lead to a better relationship between us. I have an inheritance that I would want to invest in your country. My parents are late,and before the death of my father,he had an aggreement with the bank based on the deposited fund on how it will be transfered and that nobody has the right to wthdraw pending when the fund is transfered out of Africa for investment reasons. The amount is US$6.850.000. I want you to stand as my late father's business partner in claiming the money in the bank here. I will give you 15% of the total money if only I can use your account in transferring the money and you assisting me in investing the money in a lucrative business in your cxountry. I will forward all vital information as soon as I hear from you. Regards. Young Nana +22507559583 N/B Please forward your bank account details with your private contact telephone and fax numbers
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