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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: mary nkosi <mary_nkosi1@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:30:23 +0100 (BST)
Subject: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL


#126 DF MALLAN DRIVE NORTHCLIFF
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.



DEAR SIR/MADAM,

Good day! My name is MRS. MARY NKOSI the wife of MAYOR JOE NKOSI of Zimbabwe. This might be a surprise to you where I got your address. I got your address from the South African Chamber of Commerce in Johannesburg. During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from the support of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farmers 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 the country and treasury of the farmer's co-operation did not support his idea and so the party members invaded my
husband's farm 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, I and my children decided to move out of Zimbabwe because our lives were in danger with the money that my husband kept in his hiddensafe in my house. The amount contained in the safe is US$22.5M(Twenty Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand United states 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 30% of the total sum for helping us to move this money out to your country and 10% will be mapped out for expenses both of us may incur during this transaction and 60% will be for me and my family to invest in your country.

All I want you to do is to make immediate arrangements to come to South Africa to open a non resident account in your name where this Money is going to be deposited first before its onward transfer to your Country's account and also your personal phone and fax numbers for Easy communication. You can contact my son ZUMA NKOSI through this private phone number 27-73-150-7860 for security reasons, to indicate your willingness to help us in this transaction. Please,always contact my son, because, I Spends most time at the hospital.


Best regards,
MARY NKOSI (MRS)
(For the family)





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