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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: "jacob zumer" <jacob_zumer@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:56:21 +0200
Subject: FAMILY REQUEST FOR HELP

FROM JACOB ZUMER.
TEL:27-735-601-768.
E-MAIL:jacob_zumer@hotmail.com

Dear Sir,

FAMILY REQUEST FOR HELP
My name is JACOB ZUMER,the elder son of Mr. MOYO ZUMER.of Zimbabwe. This
might be a surprise to you about where I got your contact address. I got
your address from the South African Chamber of Commerce in Johannesburg ,
South Africa. During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from
the supports of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned
farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers
to surrender all their farms to his

party mem bers and his followers. My father is one of the best farmers in
our country and because he did not support Mugabe's ideas, Mugabe's
supporters invaded my father's farm and burnt
everything in the farm, killing my father and made away with a lot of items
in my father's farm. Before his death, my father had deposited with one of
the Security Company in Johannesburg, South Afri ca the sum of US$18.5
Million (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).with
my name,and made every documents with my name both the certificate of
depositry.

Then after the death of my father, we decided to move to the Republic of So
uth Africa where he had deposited the money in the Security Company as
valuables. So,I decided to contact you to assist me to transfer this money
out of South Africa because as asylum seekers we are not allowed to operate
any bank account within South Af rica. We have agreed to offer you 20% of
the total sum for your assistance, 5% will be mapped out for any expenses
that may be incurred in
the course of this transaction and 75% will be for me and my family to
invest in your country. All I want you to do is to furnish me with your f
ull personal phone and fax numbers for easy communication.
You can contact me on the above Telephone number.Note that this transaction
is 100% risk free and absolutely
confidential.

Thanks and God bless.
Best Regards.
JACOB ZUMER.
FOR THE FAMILY

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