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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: danmac@web-mail.com.ar
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:12:48 +0200
Subject: CAN YOU ASSSIT?

FROM:MR YUSUF IDRIS
JOHANNESBURG.SOUTH AFRICA.



OUR REF:FAMILY IN NEED OF YOUR HELP.
ATTN Drako,

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
my family and me. I am MR YUSUF IDRIS the son of MR BALA IDRIS 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 father who
was one of the best farmers in our country and treasury of the farmer's co-
operation did not support his idea and so the party members invaded my father's
farm and burnt everything in the farm, killed my father
and made away with a lot of items in my fater'farm .

After the death of my father,I and my mother and my sister decided to move out
of Zimbabwe because our lives were in danger with the money that my father
kept in his hidden safe in my house. The amount contained in the safe is US$20M
(Twenty Million United States Dollars) and we decided to code the money and
move to 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 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 5% will be
mapped out for expenses both of us may incure during this transaction and 70%
will be for me and family to invest in your country. All I want is for you to furnish
me with your and personal phone and fax numbers for easy communication. You
can contact me on above Telephone. numbers and e-mail address. NOTE: That
this transaction. is 100% RISK FREE. and absolutely confidencial.

Thanks and Best Regards,

MR YUSUF IDRIS

(For The Family)

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