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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: fredkhumalo22@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:17:59 +0200
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL FAMILY FUND TRANSFER REQUEST.

Dear Sir|Madam,

First I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval . I wish to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am Trevor Vusii Labani from Somalia.

I write you to know my desires to invest in your country. I am the first son of Dunai Vusii labani, who was the former Minister of Mines and Industry. My father had a bullet wounds by the rebels on his way traveling to the Capital city Mogadishu along with my sister. My sister died on the spot while Ethiopian Led force rescued my father, he later died after tthree weeks .

Before his death he told to me about the box containing $18.5 million U.S Dollars which he deposited with a securityand finance company in johannesburg South Africa.According to him,the said amount was earmarked to purchase Arms & Ammunition for the transitional government in an arms company based here in Johannesburg,South Africa with the support of the defence ministry after the death of the Minister for defence.

My late father has been the bridge between the Arab controlled militia and the transitional the present transitional government until his death last year in the hands of the militia with links to El --Quaida.My family have been under threat of extintion and constant military attacks by the resurgent Arab Militiamen that are bent in destroying our loving country Somalia and institute sharia laws.Our residential homes have been destroyed and presently our lives are seriously not safe anymore .

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