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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.
  • +27739181010 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: shabalala@executivemail.co.za
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:01:51 +0100
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

FROM: MR JOHNSON SHABALALA
TEL: +27-73-918-1010


ATTENTION: DIRECTOR

I know this letter may be a surprise to you, as we have not known before. Do not be worried because you were reliable
introduced to me. By way of introduction, I am MR, JOHNSON SHABALALA an auditor/accountant in one of the commercial
banks in South Africa.

There is an account opened in this bank in 2000 and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again. After going
through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it would be
forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is ENID MURIEL COETZEE, a foreigner, died on 14TH NOVEMBER 2004. The account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that company does not know anything about this account and the amount involved is (USD$ 12.5M).

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can only be
approved to any foreign account because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the account is ENID MURIEL
COETZEE is a foreigner too. We will sign an agreement, but be sure that it is real and a genuine business.

Please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take immediately. Send also your private telephone
and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. I want us to meet face to face or
sign a binding agreement to bind us together so that you can receive this money into a foreign account or any
account of your choice where the fund will be safe. And I will fly to your country for withdrawal and sharing and
other investments.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner, who has correct information of this account,
which I will give to you later, if you are able and willing to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust
according to my instructions and advice for our mutual benefit because this opportunity will never come again in
my life. I need truthful person in this business because I don't want to make mistake, I need your strong
assurance and trust.

With my position now in the office I can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account, which you can
provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing . I
will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place. You can
also come to discuss with me face to face after which I will make this remittance in your presence and two of us
will fly to your country at least two days after the money going into the account.

I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to act and receive this
fund in your account. I will use my position and influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of this money
to your account with appropriate clearance forms of the ministries and foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 20% of the total amount, 75% will be for me, and while 5% will
be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring.

I look forward to your earliest reply through my Tel /Fax above.

Yours truly,

MR JOHNSON SHABALALA

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