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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: "Mr Kwase Clement" <k24mgts@netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 11:09:49
Subject: I NEED YOUR PARTNERSHIP IN BUSINESS

From: Mr.Kwase Clement
Public Works Dept.
Pretoria, South Africa.


REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION


I am interested in your partnership in business dealing. This business proposal I wish to intimate
you with is of mutual benefit and its success is
entirely based on mutual trust, cooperation and a high level of confidentiality as regard this
transaction. I am the Chairman of the Contract Advisory
Committee (CAC) of the Public Works Dept.(PWD). I am seeking your assistance to enable me
transfer the sum of US$9.300,000.00 (Nine Million,
Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) into your private/company account. The fund
came about as a result of a contract awarded and
executed on behalf of my Department the PWD. The contract was supposed to be awarded to
two foreign contractors to the tune of US
$69,000,000.00 (Sixty nine Million United States Dollars). But in the course of negotiation, the
contract was awarded to a Bulgarian contractor at
the cost of US$50,700,000.00 (Fifty Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
leaving an excess of US$9,300,000 to my benefit
unknown to the contractor.

This contract has been satisfactorily executed and inspected as the Bulgarian firm is presently
securing payment from my Ministry, where I am the
Executive Director in-charge of all foreign contract payment approval. As a civil servant still in
active government service, I am forbidden by law to
operate an account outside the shores of South Africa. Hence this message to you seeking
your assistance so as to enable me present your
private/company account details as a beneficiary of contractual claims alongside that of the
Bulgarian contractor, to enable me transfer the
difference of US$9,300,000.00 (Nine Million, Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
into your provided account. All logistics are in place
and all modalities worked out for a smooth actualisation of the transaction within the next few
working days of commencement.

Thank you and God bless as I await your urgent response. If this mail is offensive, I sincerely
apologise and please do not respond.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr.Kwase Clement.

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