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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: "James Khoza" <jm_khoza@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jam_khoza_06@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:25:01 +0000
Subject: READ CAREFULLY AND SEND ME THE INFORMATION REQUESTED

Attn:VICTIMNAME,

I am torched by your sincerity in your mail,that is in response to my
proposal.I read your mail and undestand what you exprienced but will not
want to be a preacher to you.All i will say to you for now is to trust and
watch the process as it unfold which you must be part and percel of it.

I am urging you to put aside what you experienced and tust me,for i believe
that it is only by trusting each other that we can be able to work together
to make this work.

Thank you again for your response to my proposal. I want to assure you
once more that making this claim with the plans of my colleagues and I as
workers in this department is well planed

Sir we are bestowing our trust and faith concerning this transaction in you
and also I respect your person, about your concern in assisting us, I will
discuss with my colleagues and tell them I have found a reliable and
trustworthy person that can assist us in making this claim.

However if you can give us your assurance, trust/honesty concerning your
assistance in making this claim, we will then go into negotiation about the
percentage that can be offered to your for assistance at the successful end
of this transaction, secondly what is the capability of you handling our
funds upon it successfully arrival to your chosen overseas account?


Kindly send to us your private telephone/fax numbers, As workers in this
department, what we will do to enable us claim this fund with your help is
to register incorporation in your name with our department as an
international contractor/subcontractor that has to come forward and claim
his contract fund with our department, as our department is calling for both
local and international contractors to come forward and claim their contract
fund, my colleagues and I want to use this opportunity and claim this said
fund with your help.

Upon the receipt of your response to this mail, we will guide you on how to
continue with the next step,

Thank you and God bless.

Warmest regards,

James Khoza

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