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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: suzvaye@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:18:35 +0200
Subject: TRUST AND HUMILITY

FROM MRS.SUZANH VAYE
85 MONUMENT ROAD
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA

ATTN: DIRECTOR/C.E.O

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 me and my
family.

I am MRS.SUZANH VAYE the wife of MR.KENNETH VAYE (late) 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 husband 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 husband’s farms and
burnt everything in the farm, killed my husband and made away with

a lot of items in my husband’s farm.

After the death of my husband, my children and I decided to move
out of Zimbabwe because of our lives were in danger with the money
that my husband kept in his hidden safe in my house. The amount
contained in the safe in my house is US$90.5m(Ninety million, Five
Hundred Thousand US Dollars) and we decided to code the money and
move to the 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 here in
South Africa.

So if you consider this proposal, we have agreed to give you 20% of
the total sum for helping us to move this money out of south
Africa and 5% will be mapped out for expenses both of us may incur
during this transaction and 75% will be for me and my family to
invest in your country. All I want is
for you to furnish me your details and your personal phone and
fax numbers and your email address for easy communication and more
information. You can contact my son VINCENT VAYE (Mr.) on the above
telephone ,fax number or e-mail address. NOTE: hat this
transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely confidential.

Thanks and God bless you.
Best Regard

SUZANH VAYE (MRS)
(For The Family)

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