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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: "mark adame" <constmarkadams@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 06:05:31 +0000
Subject: PLS CONTACT ME

FROM:MARK ADAMS,
EIMAL:constmarkadams@hotmail.com
PHONE+27-73859-7094,

ATTN: M.D,





Good day!

my name is MR.MARK ADAMS the elder son of Mr. JOSEPH ADAMS of Zimbabwe.
This might be a surprise to you where I got your contact address. I got it
from the South African Chamber Of Commerce in Johannesburg.

During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from the support of
our President Mugabe to claim all white owned farms in our country, all the
white farmers were ordered to surrender their farms to his party members
and his followers.

My father who was one of the best farmers in our country and the treasurer
of the farmers co-operation did not support his idea and so the party
members invaded my father s farm and burned everything in the farm, killed
my father and made away with a lot of items in my father's farm.
After the death of my father, my mother, my younger sister and I decided to
move out of imbabwe because our lives were in danger with the money my
father kept in his hidden safe in my mother s house. The amount contained in
the safe is( US$12.Million Dollars) and we decided to code the money and
move to Republic Of South Africa where we deposited the money in a Security
Company as a family treasure.

So I decided to make contact with an overseas firm that will assist us to
transfer this money out of South Africa, because we are asylum seekers here
in South Africa. As a refugee,laws here in South Africa do not allow us
certain financial rights of which we solicit for your assistance to transfer
this fund out of here.

So if you consider this proposal, we have agreed to give you from the total
sum 25% for helping us to transfer this money to your country, 5% has been
mapped out for the expenses incurred during the curse of the transaction and
70% will be for me and my family to invest in your country. Plaese,contact
me on my phone for more details.

NOTE: That this transaction is 100% risk-free and absolutely confidential.

Thanks and God bless you.

Best Regards,

MARK ADAMS
(FOR THE FAMILY)

PLEASE YOU CAN READ ABOUT PROBLEMS IN ZIMBABWE FROM THE LINKS BELOW.
http://www.1freespace.com/beetee/nov19_2001.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stmhttp://www.gta.gov.zw/land%20issues/LAND.htm

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