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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: "Dr. PRETORIUS MAKALA" <pretoriusmakala@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:19:23 -0800
Subject: MUTUAL PROJECT

ATTN: PRESIDENT/CEO

Dear Sir/Madam

It is my pleasure to request for business partnership with great
pleasure, I write to solicit for your assistance in a matter that could be of
mutual benefit to us. I only pray that you read through carefully and
respond as promptly as possible. Precisely, on the 25th of may 2000, the
Department of Minerals and Energy, South Africa where I work as the
Director of audit and project Implementation, received presidential
irrevocable circular order requesting the Department to compile and forward
the list of all past foreign contractors, whose contract payments are
pending since the period of the immediate past regime of Dr, Nelson
Mandela and the present regime.

The purpose of this exercise was for the present South Africa elected
government to pay foreign contractors all debts owned, so as to maintain
good relationship with other foreign governments and non governmental
financial agencies. In light of the above, my colleagues and I duty to
the past contractors, decided to include a company's name with a bill of
{US$18.5Million} Eighteen million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars} with other company names and their respective bills for payment
impression that {Alliance Mining SA INC} which we Incorporated here for
this exercise, also carried out contractual works of supply to the
Department as well as others.

With the co-operation of top senior colleagues of mine we are confident
that our claim of {US$18.5Million} shall be grant approval being for
contract work executed at the Department of Minerals and Energy, payment
shall then be transferred upon approval to a safe account that would be
provided by you in other wards, upon your acceptance to assist us in
this transaction then we shall forward to you all the necessary and legal
documents to certify that you have been awarded a contract already
executed, for which your company shall be paid the sum of Eighteen million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars(US$18.5Million) .

Please be informed that with the South African government monetary
policy, government officials employees are not allowed to operate or to own
a bank account abroad hence our decision to seek a foreign partner who
we can front as the beneficiary of these funds. I also have the
authority of my colleagues involved to negotiate your share and benefit of the
(US$18.5Million) after a successful transfer of the funds into your
account. Further information concerning the transaction shall be forwarded
to you upon your response to this email.

Best Regards,

Dr.Pretorius Makala.

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