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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: "David Runnstrom" <davidrunnstro@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: davidrunnstrom@netscape.net
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 15:58:24 +0200
Subject: Awiating response

Dear Sir/Madam

My name is David Runnstrom , from Johannesburg of South Africa. I am also a office-clark in a company here in South Africa called PROFIT SECURITIES (financial management). I discovered that the owner of an account died without a (HEIR / WILL) since 1997, hence the money is FLOATING and if I do not remit this money out urgently, it will be forfeited for nothing.

I want to transfer to an oversea account the sum of sixteen million United States dollars
( $16,000,000,00 U S D ). I want to ask you, if you are not capable or quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new bank account, immediately to receive this money, even an empty account can serve to receive this money, as long as you remain honest to me , believing in God that you will never let me down.

The owner of this account is a foreigner, ENGR. PIETERS ROBERTSON, an industrialist, who died since 1997. No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that until his death he had no family and he was the manager of (MILSTONE GOLD. PTY) South Africa.

We will start the first transfer with EIGHT MILLION U S D ( $8,000,000,00 USD) upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the remaining payment.

I am only contacting you, because these funds can't be approved to a local person here, only to a foreigner with a valid international foreign passport and drivers license and a foreign account, reason, the funds is in U S DOLLARS and the former owner of the account is a foreigner and the money can only be approved into a foreign account.

GUIDELINE AND TERMS OF INVESTMEST;
# To hold the funds for ten years period.
# 10% of funds for your assistance and 10% for all miscellancous expenses, totaling 20% balance
80% for investment for ten years.
# Profit will be split fifty-fifty (50%=50%) after deduction of tax and company operational expenses every year.
# For investment, any business project that is viable and profitable in SINGAPORE is allow within the periodic time of ten years, subject to accounts and audit.
# Date and time of execution, from march 2005 to march 2015.

You can reply me through this email: davidrunnstrom@netscape.net

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation and I hope to hear from you soon.

Regards,

David Runnstrom

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