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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: jambasimbulo@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 01:42:49 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hi?=

Dear Sir

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION

I am interested in your partnership in business dealing. This business
proposal I wish to intimate you with is of mutual benefit and it's success
is entirely based on mutual trust, cooperation and a high level of confidentiality
as regard this transaction. I am representing the board of the contract
award and monitoring committe of the Zambian Ministry of Mining and Resources.
I am seeking your assistance to enable me transfer the sum of US$30,500,000.00
(Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) into your
private/company account.
The fund came about as a result of a contract awarded and executed for
and on behalf of my Ministry. The contract was supposed to be awarded to
two foreign contractors to the tune of US$180,000,000.00 (One hundred and
Eighty Million United States Dollars). But in the course of negotiation,
the contract was awarded to a Bulgarian contractor at the cost of US$149,500,000.00
(One hundred and Forty-nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) to my benefit unknown to the contractor.
This contract has been satisfactorily executed and inspected as the Bulgarian
firm is presently securing payment from my Ministry, where our Board is
in-charge of all foreign contract payment approval. As a civil servant still
in active government service, I am forbidden by law to operate an account
outside the shores of Zambia. Hence this message to you seeking your assistance
so as to enable me present your private/company account details as a beneficiary
of contractual claims alongside that of the Bulgarian contractor, to enable
me transfer the difference of US$30,500,000.00 (Thirty Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) into your provided account. On actualisation,
the fund will be disbursed as stated below. 1. 20% of the fund will be for
you as beneficiary 2. 80% of the fund will be for Us. All logistics are
in place and all modalities worked out for a smooth actualisation of the
transaction within the next few working days of commencement.
For further details as to the work ability of this transaction, please
reach me as soon as possible for further clarification. Please, mail me
on receipt of this mail on my personal email address jambasimbulo_96@hotmail.com


Thank you and God bless as I await your urgent response.

Yours Sincerely,

Jamba Simbulo







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