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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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  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
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Fraud email example:

From: "bomago_shaunn@go.com" <bomago_shaunn@go.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:30:49 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: dear friend a confidential proposal...



FROM THE DESK OF: DR.SHAUNN BOMAGODIRECTOR OF PROJECTMMNR, SOUTH AFRICA
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
The information contained in this email is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. It is intended only for the stated addressee and access to it by any other person is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, you must not disclose, copy, circulate or in another way use or reply to the information contained in this email. Such unauthorized use may be unlawful.
I am Dr.Shauun Bomago the director of Project, South Africa Department of Mineral and Energy. First and foremost I apologize using this medium to reach you for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to Confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium.
In unfolding this proposal, I want to count on your credibility to handle this transaction with absolute confidentiality.Permit me to seek your co-operation to the execution of a project for the benefit of all parties and I believe and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature of this transaction. Within the Ministry of Mining and Natural resources where I work as Director of Project Implementation and with the co-operation of four other top officials, we have in our possession as overdue payment bills totaling Fourteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$14,500,000.) which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a reliable foreign company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf.
As a civil servant currently working for the government, we are incapacitated to personally handle things of this nature, as the South Africa Civil Service Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore account hence we contacted you to assist and work collaboratively with us.This amount ($14.5m) represents the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately. The actual contract cost have been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount which we have in principles gotten approval to remit by Key tested Telegraphic Transfer (K.T.T) to any foreign bank account you will provide by filing in an application through the Ministry of Justice here in South Africa for the transfer of rights and privileges of the former contractor to you.I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be willing to assist us in the transaction, your share of the sum will be 25% of the $14.5 million, 70% for us and 5% for taxation, shaunn3689@aikorn.com and miscellaneous expenses. Please note that this transaction is 100% risk free, on your part provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality.
Endeavor to contact me immediately through my email address to confirm whether or not you are interested in this deal. We are in a position to make the payment of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong Assurance and guarantee that our share of the money will be secured.
Once again, please, remember to treat this matter very confidential, because we will not comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active Government Service. Yours faithfully,
Dr.Shaunn Bomago.

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