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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • louismosola@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Louis Mosola <mosola05@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <tm003tm@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:22:10 +0000
Subject: From Mr. Louis Mosola


From Mr. Louis Mosola
#16 Rissik Street Johannesburg,
South Africa.

Hello Dear,

Best of the season!

We want to transfer out of the country the sum of $14.2Million USD from Africa and I want to ask you to kindly look for a reliable,capable and honest person who will be fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new bank account immediately to receive this money,though an empty bank account or new account could serve this purpose as long its valid and outside my country and more so that you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in time to come. Be so kind to contact me at your earliest convenient for this possible business deal.

I am an investment consultant with a prime bank here in South Africa.I am presently in Johannesburg working as an investment consultant with the bank at their Johannesburg office. I am posed to work this deal out if we can do business.

As at this moment,I am constrained to issue more details about this business until your response is received.

As we have not met before,I will forward to you everything you need to know about me as we progress with the business.I thank you for spearing moments of your very busy schedules to read my proposal. Send your response to my email address: louismosola@myway.com

Thank you for your time and attention.

Warmest regards,

Mr. Louis Mosola.
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