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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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  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
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Fraud email example:

From: "SUZANA VAYE" <suzvaye@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:22:50 +0200
Subject: FROM:MRS.SUZANH VAYE.

FROM SUZANH VAYE
85 MONUMENT ROAD
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA

ATTN: DIRECTOR/C.E.O

With due respect, trust and humility, I write you this proposal, which I
believe, would be of great interest to you. I found your contact while I was
doing a private research on the Internet for a reliable and capable foreign
partner that will assist me and my family.
I am MRS.SUZANH VAYE the wife of MR.KENNETH VAYE(late) of Zimbabwe. During
the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from the support of our
President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms 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 our
country and treasury of the farmer’s co-operation did not support his idea
and so the party members invaded my husband’s farms 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, my children and I decided to move out of
Zimbabwe because of our lives were in danger with the money that my husband
kept in his hidden safe in my house. The amount contained in the safe in my
house is US$18.5m(eighteen million, Five Hundred Thousand US 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 20% of the
total sum for helping us to move this money out of south Africa and 5% will
be mapped out for expenses both of us may incur during this transaction and
75% will be for me and my family to invest in your country. All I want is
for you to furnish me your details and your personal phone and fax numbers
and your email address for easy communication and more information. You can
contact my son VINCENT VAYE (Mr.) on the above telephone ,fax number or
e-mail address. NOTE: hat this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely
confidential.
Thanks and God bless you.
Best Regard
(MRS)SUZANH VAYE
(For The Family)

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