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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: "Dr Fred Maputo" <doctor@fredmaputo.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 03:16:03 +0000
Subject: FROM DR FRED

FROM DR FRED

Dear Sir/Madam,

REQUEST FOR PARTNERSHIP: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT!
My name is Dr. Fred Maputo, a 52 year old British born South African
citizen. I head a Seven-man Tenders Board Committee in charge of contracts
Award, Vetting, Evaluating and payments. I am presently an accountant with
the South Africa Mining Corporation.

Your name came highly recommended hence I am ontacting you for an Urgent
business proposal (please my apologies for reaching you through this
manner). The purpose of this letter to you is to simply ask your hand in
partnership towards the transfer of funds to the tune of US$36,500M
equivalent (Thirty-Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars), into a foreign account that you will provide.

The funds are ready and with your unalloyed cooperation the source of the
funds will be made genuine and legitimate, then the transfer is a 100%
hitch-free, timely and totally legitimate too. Needless to say, you don't
have entertain any fear as I am quite
conversant with all laws governing money transfer or money laundering of any
sort.

We have designed this transaction in such a way that we shall be successful
and its proceed, we shall enjoy with absolute peace of mind even after the
successful completion of it all. If you follow my instruction
accordingly and promptly, this transaction will be completed in at the most
10-14 banking days from the receipt of what I will require of you.

At this time I can not divulge further information regarding this proposal
until there exists an understanding and trust between us for security
reasons. But after receiving this mail and have perused through it and you
are interested, please do respond back via my e-mail alternative e-mail
account for security reasons. The account is
"fred_puto@hotmail.com"

please do regard this as trash and treat as such and my sincere apologies
for contacting you at all.
On the other hand, should this proposal meet your interest, we have decided
to give you a negotiable percentage from the entire sum, hoping
that it will be satisfactory.

Thank you for your much anticipated urgent response.
Respectfully,
Dr. Fred Maputo

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