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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: "joy zuma" <joyzuma1@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:28:09 +0200
Subject: Wolf, P. de

Mrs. joy zuma
127 Westonaria Ave,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Contact Person:
Email : zuma_363@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone: +27 8485-18990

Attention: I NEED YOUR HELP URGENTLY



Dear sir $ Madam,

Greetings of the day and God bless you as you read and understand this
message as a request from a family in dire need of help.

I am Mrs. Mrs. joy zuma . of Liberia, the wife of Brigadier . Martins ZUMA.
I got your contact through the South African Information Exchange (S.A.I.E.)
in my search for a trustworthy and God fearing person that will assist my
family .
My purpose of contacting you is to help me out of my difficult condition in
view of my husband's death, I need your assistance to help me to transfer
some money out of South Africa into your personal or Company's account.The
amount involved is US$19 MILLON (NINETHEEN MILLON UNITED STATES DOLLARS).

My late husband was in charge of arms and armory for Liberian Armed forces
and he generated this money during the war in the course of purchasing arms
for Liberia armed forces from South Africa and Yugoslavia. He deposited this
money with a private security company here in South Africa in cash and I
assure you that nobody knows about this money except my two sons and me.

All I am asking you is to assist us to transfer this money out of South
Africa for investment purposes. The reason being that I and my two sons are
living in South Africa as political asylum seekers(refugees) after running
from Liberia as a result of the war and the financial laws of south Africa
do not allow Asylum Seekers certain financial rights, hence I shall be very
grateful if you can assist us. For your efforts, my family has agreed to
offer you 25% of the total money for your cooperation while 5% will be set
aside for local and international expenses incurred during the course of
this transaction.

As soon as you get this message, and is able to assist us, please feel free
to Contact my son EMMANUEL ZUMA who is in Johannesburg t finalize the
transfer arrangements with this contact email:
zuma_363@yahoo.co.uk /Tellephone:+27 8485-18990.The assurance I will always
give you is that this transaction is 100% risk free, as I do not want
anything to happen to this money.

Finally, if you are not interested, I will like you to reply me to let me
find another foreign partner and you help me always keep the confidentiality
of this information about this transaction.

your urgent cooperation is anticipated
Best regards,

MRS. Mrs. joy zuma
{FOR THE FAMILY}

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