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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: "mrs Monica Moyo" <j_m_2192@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: nathan_moyo@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 11:00:32 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS LETTER

From: Mrs. Monica Moyo
Add: #23 Tudor Avenue
Johannesburg, South Africa
Tel: 27 73 831 3124
Fax: 27 11 507 6306

Dear friend.

Compliment of the day to you. I am Mrs Monica Moyo from Zimbabwe. I wish to
inform your reputable self/firm on behalf of my entire family and my
son.Jonathan Moyo about an immensely beneficial business transaction that
involves the sum US$15.4M which was deposited by late husband in the name of
our only son Jonathan Moyo in a security company here in RSA before his
death on the 27th of July 2001. We've decided to contact you base on the
profound expertise information gathered your country's industrial directory.

My family is presently in the Republic of South Africa as assylum refugees
owing to the land reform crises in my country Zimbabwe which led to the
death of my late husband (Mentu Joseph Moyo). Consqently, we have decided to
invest and re-settle outside the African continent due to geometric economic
depression and increase in crises which leads to detoriation of human
rights, devaluation of currencies, acute scarcity of food and other
amenities. I hope you may have heard of the crises in Zimbabwe over the CNN
AND BBC news.

You can as well read more about the crises in my country Zimbabwe on the
following sites:

1)http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/
2)http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html
3)http://www.mdczimbabwe.com

In a nullshell, my family would like you/your company to assist us in the
following areas:
1)To assist my family in transfering this huge sum of money into you or your
company's/private account for our investment(s) in your country.
2) To advise us on the monetary policies including the taxable percentage(s)
on the said money when transferred into your country by the your Government.
3) To advise my family on the profitable and reliable investment(s)
opportunities in your country

You shall be extensively briefed on more information about this proposal,
the modalities ALREADY PUT IN PLACE in expediting it and you are due for 20%
of the total money for your services to my family, 10% for any incurable
expenses and 70% for my family's investment. Please feel free to reach my
family on this e-mail address: nathan_moyo@hotmail.com or call me or my son
Jonathan (The beneficiary of this money) on this direct number 27738313124
for more clearifications.

PLEASE KEEP THE ABSOLUTE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THIS TRANSACTION AND I WOULD BE
EXTREMELY GLAD IF MY REQUEST IS GRANTED.

ALSO NOTE THAT THIS TRANSACTION 100% RISK FREE, TRANSPARENT AND LEGITIMATE
AND ALL THE RELATED DOCUMENTS ARE INTACT.

Waiting for your immediate response.
Best Regards,

Mrs. Monica Moyo
for the family

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