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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: "caroline roseman" <carolinersmn@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:20:14 +0000
Subject: URGENT BUSSINESS

FROM: MRS CAROL ROSEMAN
SUITE 205 MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING
RANDBURG, JOHANNESBURG 2000
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

Tel: +27-736934455. Fax:+27723304569.

ATTN:SIR/MADAM.

PROPOSAL FOR URGENT BUSSINESS ASSISTNCE

Good day! My name is MRS. CAROL ROSEMAN the wife of MAYOR DENIS ROSEMAN of
Zimbabwe. This might be a surprise to you where I got your address. I got
your address from the South African Commerce in Johannesburg.

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 the country and treasury of
the farmer's co-operation did not support his idea and so the party members
invaded my husband's farm 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, I and my children decided to move out of
Zimbabwe because 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 is
US$29M(Twenty Nine Million United states 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 an overseas firm 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
30% 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 60% will be for me and family to invest in your country.

All I want you to do is to make immediate arrangements to come to South
Africa to open a non resident account in your name where this money is going
to be deposited first before its onward transfer to your country’s account
and also your personal phone and fax numbers for easy communication.

You can contact my son JONAS ROSEMAN on the above Tel: numbers to indicate
your willingness to help us in this transaction.

NOTE: That this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely confidential,
so I would like you to maintain the confidentiality of this transaction if
you are not willing to assist me.Thanks and God bless you.

Best regards,

CAROL ROSEMAN(MRS)
(For the family)

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