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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: "Yosaa musa omar" <yosaa_musa@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: yosaamusa11@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:31:41 +0200
Subject:

From Yosaa Musa
Tel+27-726-679-903
South Africa
Attention:Director/ceo.
Dear Sir,

I know you will be surprised to read from me, more so when it came from a stranger.But please consider this request from someone in dare need of assistance.Firstly, my name is yosaa Musa Omar ,the elder son of Major Said Musa of Sudan. I got your contact address from your country business directory in Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce and Industries, then I decided to solicit for your assistance to trasfer the sum of US$18.5Million(Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) into your company/personal accounts for investments purposes.

The war veterans form the greater suporters of our President .During the war against Christian Southern Sudan, My father was one of the islamic commanders that lead the war againt the oil rich south,though he was not in support of the war that was why he used the advantage of his position to siphone the fund placed under his care to negotiate for amunation in Soth Africa and deposited the fund with a security company here for safe keeping .
After the death of my father I and my mother moved out of Sudan to the Republic of South Africa This amount,US$18.5Million(Eighteen Million Five Hundred United States Dollars) was deposited in a Security Company while we are carefully looking for a God fearing person that will help us to kindly and wisely invest this fund in a very lucrative business because i and my mother do not have business acumen.
We are presently in the Republic of South Africa as asylum seekers and the financial rules and regulation of South Africa do not permit some financial rights to asylum seekers. In view of this I cannot invest this fund in South Africa,hence I am prepared to offer you 20% of the total sum for your assistance while 5% will be set aside for local and international expenses,75% will be for me and my mother`s investments in your country with your able assistance.Please call me with the above telephone number or through my e-mail to signify your interest.(yosaamusa11@hotmail.com <mailto:yosaamusa11@hotmail.com>).

Meanwhile, I would like this matter to be treated with absolute secrecy and confidentiality. Thanking you in anticipation.
Yours truly
Yosaa Musa

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