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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: lina amand <lina_amand8u@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: amand.lina@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 03:04:24 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Miss Lina Amand

Hello

I am miss Lina Amand,i am 20 years old from Cote d'Ivoire,daughter of Mr Raymond Amand. I have 4.5 million USD which was made by my father before she died in oct 2005 which was left in a suspence account in a bank here in my country. I seek your permision to remmit this amount into your bank
account so that I could come to your country for investment and to further my studies. I have accepted to offer you a resonable percentage of the total
sum for your desire to assist me.

Best Regards,
Miss Lina Amand



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