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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • miksrob111@hotmail.com
  • miksrob111@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: miksrob12@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:11:34 +0200
Subject: Waiting for urgent response


FROM : MR. MIKE ROBERTSON
TEL: 27-83-372-2948
mail; miksrob111@hotmail.com

ATTEN;DIRECTOR

compliment of the season. I am Mr. Mike Robertson, the elder son of Mr. Peter Robertson of Zimbabwe. During the current crisis of
farmers in Zimbabwe by the supporters of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country, he ordered all the white farmers to surrender their farms to his party members and their follower. My father was one of the best black farmers in my country.
He did not support the president’s political ideology over farm lands, The president’s
supporters invaded my father’s farms burnt down everything, killed him and confiscated his investments.

Before the death of my father, he had taken the sum of (US$19.5M )Ninteen Million, five hundred thousand United States Dollars in cash . The money was meant for purchasing of farm lands in Swaziland, Botswana and Namibia also to buy tractors and other Agricultural tools for Zimbabwe farmers Association.
The funds are box presently deposited in a private security company based here in Johannesburg South Africa. I am contacting you to assist us to transfer this money to your bank account.

For assisting us we offer you 25% of the total funds, contact me on the above telephone number and e-mail.miksrob111@hotmail.com

Best regards,
MR. MIKE ROBERTSON

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