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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: "Markus Sibendi" <MarkusSibendi@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 13:51:00 +0200
Subject: Re: FINANCIAL TRANSACTION

Mr. Markus Sibendi
Email : MarkusSibendi@netscape.net

ATTN: Dear Sir/Madam

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION

I am interested in your partnership in business dealing. This
business proposal I wish to intimate you with is of mutual benefit and
its success is entirely based on mutual trust, cooperation and a high
level of confidentiality as regard this transaction.

I am representing the board of contract review and monitoring
committee of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM). I am seeking
your assistance to enable me transfer the sum of US$45,500,000.00
(Forty five Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) into
your private/company account. The fund came about as a result of a
contract awarded and executed for and on behalf of my Ministry. The
contract was supposed to be awarded to two foreign contractors to the
tune of US$180,000,000.00 (One hundred and Eighty Million United
States Dollars). But in the course of negotiation, the contract was
awarded to a Chinese contractor at the cost of US$134,500,000.00 (One
hundred and Thirty four Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) to my benefit unknown to the contractor. This contract has
been satisfactorily executed and inspected as the Bulgarian firm is
presently securing payment from my Ministry, where our Board is in-
charge of all foreign contract payment approval.

As a civil servant still in active government service, I am forbidden
by law to operate an account outside the shores of Zambia. Hence this
message to you seeking your assistance so as to enable me present your
private/company account details as a beneficiary of contractual
claims alongside that of the Bulgarian contractor, to enable me
transfer the difference of US$45,500,000.00 (Forty five Million, Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) into your provided account.

On actualisation, the fund will be disbursed as stated below.
1. 20% of the fund will be for you as beneficiary
2. 80% of the fund will be for us.

All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for a smooth
actualisation of the transaction within the next few working days of
commencement. For further details as to the workability of this
transaction, please reach me as soon as possible for further
clarification.

Please, contact me with this email address: MarkusSibendi@netscape.net

Thank you and God bless as I await your urgent response.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Markus Sibendi.

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