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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • willizuma@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <williamszuma@universia.net.mx>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:58:26 -0700
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS RELATION

FROM:Williams Zuma
EMAIL:willizuma@hotmail.com

Dear Sir, URGENT BUSINESS RELATION

I am Williams Zuma, an assistant accountant with the South Africa
Department of Housing in Johannesburg, South Africa. I am currently in
the Spain on a trade mission and would soon be going back to South Africa.It is an agreement between me and my chief accountant to contact
somebody in this business transaction. Sometime ago, contracts were awarded to foreign firms by the contract award committee of my department. All contracts have since been executed, and full contract values have been paid to all contractors concerned.
My colleague (the chief accountant) has discovered a total amount of
Six million, five hundred thousand US Dollars (US$6.5 million) not claimed.

This money now belongs to nobody or firm since all contractors have
been paid in full. We now desire to transfer this money (US$6.5 million) into any account which we expect you to provide for us.
For providing the account where we shall transfer the money into, you
will receive 30% of the money and 65% will be for me and my chief
accountant.The balance 5% will be set aside as pay-back for any expenses or bills that may be incurred during the course of this transaction. It does not matter whether or not you have a company that executes contracts. We have strong and reliable connections and contacts, and we have no doubt that the full amount will be released if we get the necessary foreign partner from your country to assist us. After the successful transfer, I will immediately
come over to your country and maybe have our share put into investment as you may advise us. We shall through our same connections, withdraw all documents used. The security of this transaction is 100%.

There is no risk on both sides. Please keep this transaction as strictly confidential and please do not discuss this with anybody as it may jeopardize our chances. Contact me immediately through the above email address I will provide you my telephone as soon you response to me, whether or not you are interested. If you are not, it will enable me seek for another partner. Send to me your direct and confidential telephone number for us to have first hand discussion on themodalities.

I await your prompt response.Thank you.

Williams Zuma.
Dept. of Housing Johannesburg, South Africa




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