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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: "Shima Eunice" <ushima2006@msn.com>
Reply-To: eunice_shima@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:38:14 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED.

FROM: MRS. EUNICE SHIMA.
14th November,2005.


Greetings.

First and Foremost,Let me introduce myself.I am Mrs.Eunice Shima wife of
Tony Shima a mechanised farmer from zimbabwe.

We are a family that needs help from you, we are from Zimbabwe the south of
Africa and we are farmers but we are having a very big problems with the
President Mr. Robert Mugabe. Because my husband criticised him for seizing
the farmlands and personal belongings of white farmers and also
sending his mobs and aids to destroy their properties.

My husband was killed by his aids and they confisticated all our properties
so me and my two children had to run to Chad a small country where we did
not know anybody for safety and we are now seeking asylum,what we want you
to do is to help us claim the sum of Three million dollars
($3,000,000.00) that my husband left or deposited in a finance house in
Europe before
his untimely death.

We cannot go and make the claim and if we try to do that, the President have
people all over that will know and they will seize the funds, so I
,Mrs.Shima is writing to you in person and as a big brother nation to help
us and claim this fund.You can stand as a partner to my late husband and
send to the finance house an application for claim or retransfer of the
funds to your account and you will have 20% of the total amount and if you
will invest our share in your country but it's very important you help
us to come over to your great country.

In Conclusion,If you want to help us, give me The Following
information:full names,contact Tel/Fax numbers,contact address,nationality
and occupation.

Please forward all response to my confidential email
address:eunice_shima@yahoo.co.uk

Thank you and God bless.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Shima.

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