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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: "alex kanku" <alexkanku@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:25:11 +0000
Subject: MY RESPONES

FROM:ALEX KANKU,
EIMAL:alexkanku@hotmail.com
PHON:+27-72-498-9997

ATTN:M.D

Good day! my name is MR.ALEX KANKU the elder son
of Mr. ALEX KANKU of Zimbabwe. This might be a
surprise to you where I got your contact address. I
got it from the South African Chamber Of Commerce in Johannesburg.

During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and
from the support of our President Mugabe to claim all
white owned farms in our country, all the white
farmers were ordered to surrender their farms to his
party members and his followers.

My father who was one of the best farmers in our country and the
treasurer of the farmers co-operation did not support his idea and so the
party
members invaded my fatherÂ’s farm and burned everything in the farm,
killed my father and made away with a lot of items in my fatherÂ’s farm.

After the death of my father, my mother, my younger
sister and I decided to move out of Zimbabwe because
our lives were in danger with the money my father kept
in his hidden safe in my motherÂ’s house. The amount
contained in the safe is US$22.3 Million (Twenty Two,
Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
and we decided to code the money and move to Republic
Of South Africa where we deposited the money in a
Security Company as a family treasure.

So I decided to make contact with an overseas firm that will assist us to
transfer this money out of South Africa, because we are asylum seekers
here in South Africa. As a refugee,laws here in South Africa do not allow us
certain financial rights of which we solicit for your assistance to
transfer this fund out of here.

So if you consider this proposal, we have agreed to
give you from the total sum 25% for helping us to
transfer this money to your country, 5% has been
mapped out for the expenses incurred during the curse
of the transaction and 70% will be for me and my
family to invest in your country.Plaese,contact me on
my phone for more details.

NOTE: That this transaction is 100% risk-free and absolutely
confidential.
Thanks and God bless you.

Best Regards,
ALEX KANKU
(FOR THE FAMILY)

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