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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: flashfortuneSA@webmail.co.za
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:06:53 +0200
Subject: VERY URGENT

133 MELVIL ROAD
SALTON, JOHANESSBURG.
SOUTH AFRICA.

Attn:

Dear Sir,

Let not this message come to you as a surprise.
First of all, my name is Kross Hudson a Bank Manager
ofone of the branches of the Amalgamated Bank of
South Africa ( ABSA).

I am prompted to send you this mail out of my dire
need of your assistance in the Business that I am herein
to introduce to you.

As a manager of my Bank Branch, I discovered a non
resident account that has not been operated for more than 13years,
this particular account has in
it USD$19.5m and belong to one Mr. Bruno Orwell
a German who was a gold miner and had a company
(ORWELL GOLDLINE COMPANY). here inSouth Africa.
From my findings, this Man Mr. Bruno Orwell is late I
discovered that he died in car crash in Cape Town
16years Ago During the Apartheid-Era in South Africa.

Having gone through the old files, this man never made
provision for the next of kin when the account was opened
at this aspect, I became conscious
of Moving the money out and I have Discussed with my
Head office Manager
regarding this, and he is very much Game for us to
move the Fund out of South Africa for our use if I can find
a foreign Partner who we can use
his name as the next of kin to late Mr. Bruno and get
the fund transferred to his account.

This is why it has become important for me to Solicit
for your Connivance in making this possible.
And we have agreed that if you be of assistance, that
we will compensate you with 35% of the Total sum while
we set aside 10% to redeem any expenses
that may be incurred by you or we in the Process
of this transaction.

Please if this is acceptable to you, Kindly get back
to me immediately so that we can discuss the
modalities of the transaction and note that
this transaction is 100% risk free.

I expect to hear from you soon.
Thank you and God bless you.

Yours Faithfully,

Kross Hudson
TEL:27 73 551 6106
Email:absabankktransfer@yahoo.co.uk

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