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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: "monica mabel" <monicamabel_99@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:27:07 +0200
Subject: URGENT FAMILY ASSITANCE/INVESTMENT NEEDED

FROM: MRS MONICA MABEL
HARARE ZIMBABWE
EMAIL : monicamabel_99@hotmail.com


ATTENTION

You might be surprise to receive this letter from me since you don’t know me
personally. I am mrs MONICA MABELthe wife of late Mr Micheal Mabel who was
murdered by the Zimbabwe war veterans and irate black people.

I am writing this letter from harare, Zimbabwe. I got your contact e-mail
address through South Africa chamber of commerce and industry. After due
consideration of your profile, hence I decided to write to you. I write to
solicit for your special assistance to my family shattered by a tyrannical
government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party, President
ROBERT MUGABE.

Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe the government Secretly
sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to disposed the land
being occupied by the white farmers.This action has led to killing of some
members of opposition party including my husband who did not support this
ill-fated action.But before the death of my husband,he anticipated some
dangers and so he smuggled out the sum of US$25.5 million
dollars(Twenty-five million five hundred
thousand united state dollars) to South Africa and deposited it in a
Security Company with the intention of using it for the purchase of farm
machinery and chemicals for agricultural Purpose in South Africa and
establishment of a new farm in Swaziland.

This money was deposited in a box as a germ stone to avoid much demurrage in
the Security Company. On the 29 august 2003 the war veterans and some
potters of(ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed my
husband to death and my second son of 25yrs.Since then they have been
terrorizing my son EDWARD but he managed to escape to neighbouring country
South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee).

His position in South Africa does not permit him to open an account or to
oparate any business.That is why I want this fund to be transferred in your
account so that you will assist him to invest the money in your country. I
must let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free. If you accept to
assist us, all I want from you is to arrange and come down to Johannesburg
South Africa so that you can help him to open a non-resident bank account in
your name which will aid us in transferring the money into your nominating
account overseas.

I have two option for you, firstly, you can choose to have certain
percentage of the money for nominating your account in this transaction or
we can go into pertnership with you for the proper profitable investment of
the money in your country, whichever the option you want fell free to notify
with him. He will then furnish you with every detail you needed to know.We
have also mapped out 5% of the total sum for any expenses that might be
iurred during the time of
this transaction.

If you do not prefer a partnership, we are willing to give you 25% of the
money while the remaining 70% will remain for my family, if you are really
willing to assist us please contact Mr.EDWARD MABEL immediately in South
Africa with this email id {edwardmabel@netscape.net} phone + 27 83-940-6792
Finally please treat this mater as urgentas possible, I’m in dire him to
leave that country
soonest.

Thanks for you’re mutual co-operation.I expecting your soonest and urgent
response.


Best Regards,

MRS MONICA MABEL.
{ for the family }

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