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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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  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "sen henry" <senhenry20@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 07:36:11 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE


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My Dear friend,

I am a 57 years old senator from KENYA. I was accursed over issues relating
to looting of public fund while in Government here in my country and all my
properties, investment & personal bank accounts traced has been seized.

However,l am under house arrest with my wife & children right now and they
prevented our friends,relatives, including my lawyer from coming to see us
until they finish nvestigation. As things are presently, l may not regain my
freedom in next 3 years from what i am seeing now.

This is where i need help, secretly, l have money; $48.5 Million which i
deposited under a Bank in England since 2006 and i had an agreement with
this company during the time of deposit that my deposit will be due to renew
duration contract on December 2008 or it will start accumulating tax of
$3,000 every 24 hours passed.

Honestly, i cannot afford to loss that kind of money everyday and for how
long? in any case i have decided to seek for a partner abroad with whom i
can trust to give the deposit code & batch number to retrieve this money for
me and use it to buy shares for me. i am ready to offer
10% of the total fund to any interested partner for his/her assistance.

Can you help?

Sen. Henry Dawkins
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