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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: phillipsipho100@netscape.net
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:45:40 -0800
Subject: +From Phillip Sipho

From the Desk of: Mr.Phillip Sipho
Director, Audit & Project Implementation
DEPARTMENT OF MINING & NATURAL RESOURCES.

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT.

ATTENTION:

I am Phillip Sipho, a native of Cape Town in South Africa and I am an
Executive Accountant with the South Africa Department of Mining & Natural Resources.
First and foremost,I apologized using this medium to reach you for a
transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to confidentiality and
prompt access reposed on this medium. Be informed that a member of the South
Africa Export Promotion Council (SEPC) who was at the Government delegation to your
country during a trade exhibition gave your enviable credentials/particulars to me.
I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution
of the deal described hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will
keep it as a top secret because of the nature of this transaction.Within the
Department of Mining & Natural Resources where I work as a director and with the
cooperation of four other top officials, we have in our possession contract payment
bills totaling Thirty Eight Million One Hundred Thousand U. S. Dollars (US$38,100,000.00)
which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a foreign
company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable foreign
non-company account to receive such funds. More so, we are handicapped in the
circumstances, as the South Africa Civil Service Code of Conduct does not allow us
to operate offshore account hence your importance in the whole transaction.
This amount (US$38,1M) represents the total contract value executed on
behalf of my Department by a foreign contractor, (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich,
Germany) who died along with his entire family in July 2000 in a plane crash.
(France Concorde new York bound flight;

For more details,please Click below ;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I have the authority of my partners involved to propose to you,if you are willing to
assist us in this transaction, your share of the sum will be 20% of the US$38,1Million,
75% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses. The business itself is
100% safe, Please be inform that in course of this transaction there shall be no
UPFRONT PAYMENT from your part as my colleagues have been on talk with a foreign
Investor to obtain a loan to cover all expenses that we might incure in cause of
this transcation. provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality.
Also your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful execution of
this transaction. I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not
disappoint me. Endeavor to contact me immediately through the below email address,
phillipsipho@netscape.net whether or not you are interested in this
deal. This will enable me open discussion with other interested foreign partner with
recommendation to carry out this deal.

I want to assure you that myself and my partners are in a position to make the payment
of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong assurance and guarantee
that our share will be secured and Please remember to treat this matter as very
confidential matter because we will not comprehend with any form of exposure as we
are still in active Government Service and remember once again that time is of the
essence in this business opportunity.

I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Phillip Sipho(Mr.)

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