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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "money laundering" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Kate Bongani <kabongani1@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:37:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: WE NEED YOUR HELP











FROM:MRS=A0KATE BONGANI
=A0NO 1436 Tracing Road .
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Rosebenk.
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Johannesburg
=A0=A0=A0=A0 South Africa=20
=A0Tel +2772 558=A0 1080
=A0
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 HIGHLY C=
ONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT=20
=A0
=A0 I am Mrs.Kate=A0Bongani, wife of late Mr=A0Frank Bongani who was murder=
ed by the Zimbabwean veterans and irrate black people.Before the death of m=
y husband on the 29th=20


of July 2002, he was a Properous Tobacco and Coffee farmer in Zimbabwe and =
one of the=20
major sponsor/ Financier of the opposition party=A0 Movement For Democratic=
Change(MDC)iZimbabwe.=A0 He was also the former president of Farmers Co-op=
erative Trade Union in Zimbabwe . I am writing you from Johanessburg ,South=
Africa .=A0 I got your contact email address through the South African Int=
ernational Information Exchange Centre and decided to write you.=A0 I write=
to solicit for your special assistance to a=A0family shattered by a tyrann=
ical government led by the dictator President ROBERT MUGABE and his(ZANU-PF=
) ruling party.=A0 I am probably of the convinction that you are aware of t=
he present situation in my country Zimbabwe sequel to the land and farm lan=
d crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans an=
d some irrate party members to disposes the land being occupied by whites a=
nd some rich farmers who are opposed to his consistent stay in power and hi=
s radical and unnecessary reforms targeted at his political opponents.
This action has led to the killing of some members of the opposition party=
including my husband(Tony Bongani),who did not support this ill-fated acti=
on. But before the death of my husband and the consistent threats to his li=
fe, he anticipated some dangers and so he smuggled out the sum of US$6.5m(S=
ix Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) to South Africa sin=
ce it is the nearest neighbouriny country and deposited it in a security co=
mpany with the intention of using it for the purchase of New farm machinery=
and chemicals for Agricultural purposes in South Africa as well as a purch=
ase of some hectares of land in swaziland.=A0 On the 29th July, 2002, the w=
ar veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our =
compound and axed him(my husband) to death.
=A0=A0 Since then, they have been terrorizing my only son,frank JR, but I s=
ucceeded to work for his escape to a neighbouring country, South Africa as =
a political=A0asylum seeker (refugee).=A0 But his position in South Africa =
does not permit him to open an account or normalise this fund for any meani=
ngful business transaction in south Africa since He does not have a south A=
frica Identity Card. That is why I want this fund to be transferred into yo=
ur Norminated account so that you will assist him to invest it in your coun=
try.=A0=20
=A0Hence,if you agree to assist us, we have two option for you, we have agr=
eed to go into partnership with you and your family or in the alternatve, w=
e offer you 30%of the money for your assistance, 10% will be for the possib=
le expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 60%will be f=
or our family investment in your country,through your assistance. I want yo=
u to understand that this fund is purely a family fund/ money and not drug =
money, nor could it be classified as government fund or Money Laundering af=
fairs and it could be substanciated by relevant authorties by our attorney.=
=A0=A0 It is Family fund but termed confidential because I do not want my s=
on to be traced to where he is presently. If you are interested in assistin=
g us, kindly contact my son or myself with this email address,Right now, I =
am presently in south Africa with=A0FRNK JR. my son and the whole of my fam=
ily sequel to the tensed political situation and the fear for our lives
in Zimbabwe .=A0 I need your urgent and confidential response.=20
=A0Thanks.
=A0
=A0Best regards
=A0Kate Bongani=0A=0A=0A

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