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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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27720303768 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: joe william <joe_william_attorneys@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 00:13:18 -0800 (PST)
Subject: urgent reply


From Joe Williams
+27-72-030-3768

Dear
I have a client who wants to invest in your country to the tune of US$20.5M{Twenty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollar}. My client is an
associate to late Dr.John Garang, the late Vice President of Sudan who was recently died in a helicopter crash.

If you can handle such a huge investment{s}as the death of Dr.John Garang has harged the political atmosphere in Sudan, we would want you to consider my client's sacurity utmost, thereby to avoid anything that will jeopardise or enrisk him in this transaction.Kindly get back to me as soon as possible if you feel capable, so that the details of the business will be revealed to you as we proceed, for example the investment plans, contract agreement, etc. I am waiting for your immediate responds to this if you are willing.
Regards,
Joe Williams




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