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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: "benard irwin" <benirwin2004@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: benirwin2004@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 04:43:04 -0700
Subject: COULD YOU BE OF HELP PLEASE?

Good Day,

With due respect for your privacy, I wish to introduce my humble self to
you. I am the elder son of William Benard of Zimbabwe.

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 members and his followers.

My father William Benard is one of the best farmers in my country in Zimbabwe
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 Spain the sum of US$18.5 Million (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars)with my name, then After the death of my father, I
decided to move to the Spain where he had deposited the money in the Security
Company as valuables.
So I decided to contact overseas firm and companies that will assist me
to move this money out of Spain because as asylum seekers I was not allowed
to operate any bank account in Spain.

And I have agreed now to offer you 25% of the total fund for your assistance
to see that this money is moved from here to your Country, and 5% of the
money I have mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course
of this transaction.
While 70% will be for me and my family to invest in your country when we
are there. You also will be required in Spain to open a non-resident bank
account in your name, where the money we be deposited first before transferring
into your account in your
Country.

This will help to facilitate an easy transfer. On your receipt of this mail,
I will appreciate it very much if you would please reply me immediately.
From my inquiries, the whole transaction will take you three working days
to be concluded on your arrival here.
This transaction is 100% risk-free and I have the documents covering the
deposit.

Thanks and Remain Blessed.

Yours Faithfully,

lrvin Benard.




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