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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: janerossman@zwallet.com
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 02:48:46 +0200
Subject: **Sincere Associate Required**

FROM: JANE ROSSMAN (MRS)
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA
janerossman@easyinfomail.co.za

Sir/Madam

With due respect, trust and humility, I write you this proposal, which I believe, would be of great interest
to you. I found your contact while I was doing a private research on the internet for a reliable and capable
foreign partner that will assist me and my family. I am MRS.JANE ROSSMAN the wife of MR.KENNETH ROSSMAN (late)
of Zimbabwe.

During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from the support of our President Robert Mugabe to claim
all the white owned farms in our country, all the white farmers were ordered to surrender their farms to his
party members and his followers. My husband who was one of the best farmers in our country and treasury of the
farmers’s co-operation did not support his idea and so the party members invaded my husband’s farms and burnt
everything in the farm, killed my husband and made away with a lot of items in my husband’s farm.

After the death of my husband, my children and I decided to move out of Zimbabwe because of our lives were in
danger with the money that my husband kept in his hidden safe in my house. The amount contained in the safe in
my house is US$12m(Twelve million US Dollars) and we decided to code the money and move to the Republic of
South Africa where we deposited the money in a Security Company as a valuable item. So I decided to make
contact with a foreigner whom will assist me to move this money out of South Africa, because we are asylum
seekers here in South Africa.

So if you consider this proposal, we have agreed to give you 25% of the total sum for helping us to move this
money out to your country and 10% will be mapped out for expenses both of us may incur during this transaction
and 65% will be for me and my family to invest in your country. All I want is for you to furnish me with all
your banking details and your personal phone and fax numbers for easy communication. You can contact my son
JAMES ROSSMAN (Mr) on the above telephone number. NOTE: that this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely
confidential.

Thanks and God bless you.

Best Regards,

JANE ROSSMAN (MRS)
janerossman@easyinfomail.co.za
(For The Family)

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