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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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  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
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Fraud email example:

From: Amina Idowu <amina.idowu@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: aminaid84@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:19:05 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE I NEED HERE



Hello Dear,
=A0
FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION,
=A0
Due to my careful search for an honest, reliable and sincere business partn=
er, i got your contact from Internet=A0 and i ask if you can be trusted not=
to break an agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my mind to contac=
t you and to offer you this proposal of
mine of which my whole life depends on.=A0

My name is Miss Amina Idowu, the daughter of=A0Alhaji Behki Idowu Ahmed of =
blessed memory from Zimbabwe, During the current 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 wh=
ite farmers and some of=A0 black Oppositions to=A0 surrender all farms to h=
is party members and his followers.
=A0
My father is One of the most successful multy farmers in our country and be=
cause he did not support Mugabe`s ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded his fa=
rm 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 with=A0 FINANCE HOUSE IN ASIA the=
sum of (USD $6.5 MILLION). After the death of my father, I decided to move=
to=A0 Ghana where i re-located under political asylum as a refugee to seek=
=A0 for foreign partner overseas that will assist me to move this money out=
of THE FINANCIAL HOUSE to your country as i have made up my mind to invest=
and live in your country as=A0an asylum seeker i am not allowed to operate=
any Bank Account within Accra Ghana.I have agreed to
offer you 7% of the total sum for your assistance as soon as the money get`=
s into your account while 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that may b=
e incurred in the course of this transaction both local and international.
=A0
I want truth and honest to be our watch word in this transaction and please=
treat this transaction with strictly confidential for the successful out c=
ome of it. All I want you to do is to furnish me with=A0 your personal phon=
e and fax numbers and also your
private e-mail address for easy and urgent communication.
=A0
Note that this transaction is 100% Risk free and
absolutely confidential.=20
=A0
Thanks and God
bless you.
Sincerely Yours,
Amina Idowu=0A=0A=0A

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