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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "MR MODISE" <tpaa__1@myway.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:10:25 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSITANCE ON THIS ISSUE

>From Mr.Modise Moathlodi.
#32 Umuakuma Avenue
Johanessburg South Africa.
Po Box:1098
Tel: + 882-164-665-3548
Dear Sir.

I apologise if the contents here under are contrary to your moral ethics. But please treat with absolute secrecy and personal. I am {Mr.Modise Moathlodi} the operational manager in charge of credit and foreign bills of FIRSTRAND BANK LTD here in South Africa.also an Account Officer to a deceased customer of the Bank (Engr Pviton G. Walter). We lost this customer and his family in a fatal auto crash here in Johanessburg South Africa. some years back and his accounts of US$48,223,000,00 ( FORTY EIGHT MILLION TWO HUNDRED & TWENTY THREE THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS ) with us has been dormant and unclaimed due to unvailability of a next of kin /relatives to claim his fund and estate.

In accordance with the estate laws of South Africa, the Board of Directors of the Bank met a forth night ago and resolved to turn the estate of the deceased over to the Government having waited for too long without the deceased relatives/next of kin surfacing and if this is done, invarlably the fund and the estate will end up to becoming Government property and it is as a result of this that i am move to contact you. in view of this, I am seeking for your co-operation and good understanding to stand as the deceased next of kin to enble us claim the inheritance before the time period given by Bank elapse.
If you are interested and in agreement with me, please write back immediately, through this alternative email address. Be rest assured that it is risk free project and the proceeding will be share 70% for me and 25% will be for you and 5% will be for any expence that might involve once the fund are repatriated into your account.
I wait for your urgent reply,

Mr.Modise Moathlodi.

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