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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.
  • msika_f@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: frank msika <msikaf1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <msikaf@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 19:21:54 +0200
Subject: REQUEST FOR A SMALL JOINT VENTURE



RE: REQUEST FOR A SMALL JOINT VENTURE.
Dear Sir,Kindly spare me part of your precious time to read my letter and see if we can benefit from each other, no matter how little the proceeds may be. I am a small business owner based in South Africa with a work force of 10 employees including my wife. We produce and export signage materials to some other African countries. We buy our raw materials and industrial chemicals from the major Dealers that has the sole distributorship right covering the southern African region.
Small business of our size faces so many challenges due to our inability to buy the necessary raw material from the overseasmanufacturing companies directly. The reason is that we are being referred to their major dealers within and with their monopoly to control prices couple with tax payment, it has tremendous effect on my business and I have worked very hard to circumvent from this situation.
In my effort to avoid loosing so much, I have been advised by a source close to one of the overseas manufacturing companies to arrange and be placing my orders on items directly to him, as well as payment for such orders from outside Africa. Upon their receipt of the placed order and payment made and confirmed in their stipulated account/s, an instruction will be issued to ship the goods to my nearest destination within Africa. Then I can be buying at a much cheaper cost directly from the manufacturer.
On this note, if you can kindly assist me a set up a special account that I will be funding for this purpose, I believe I can save enough as well compensate you. However, the account has to be a sort of joint account to avoid misunderstanding. Once I forward funds and it is confirmed in the account, you will make payment for the orders to their stipulated account.
At every given point that I forward funds to this account, considering your immeasurable assistance towards this, you are entitled to retain 5% of the funds as gratuity on your part. Please pardon me if my manner of approach is in any way offensive to you, but do contact me at your earliest convenient time because I need your assistance here.
Regards,Mr. Frank Msika.Tel: +27- 83-985-1035Email: msika_f@yahoo.com

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