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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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Fraud email example:

From: Mr Dumisani Mthobisi<INF0@mousemail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 09:57:32 -0700
Subject: investment proposal



From: Mr Dumisani Mthobisi
ABSA Bank (Amalgamated Bank of South Africa)
Tel:+27731676285
Fax:+27866030682&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Attention Sir

I am Mr Dumisani Mthobisi, The Accountant General of Amalgamated Bank of South Africa (Absa Bank) it&rsquo;s my desire to contact you on a good faith and with good spirit of heart i opened up this great opportunity for our mutual benefit, I personally discovered a fix deposit account with a total sum of $16.000.000. (Sixteen Million United States Dollars) during our annual end of 2014 account auditing belonging to a deceased client in our bank a&nbsp; Chinese citizen Mr Tang Xuezhu,
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The owner of this dormant account was in Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370) disappeared on Saturday, 8 March 2014. Since the death of the deceased, nobody has operated in this account,
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http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1475564/flight-mh370-who-were-passengers-aboard-lost-aircraft

Moreover, this account has NO BENEFICIARY attached to it. Definitely, This Fund will be confiscated by our BANKING CODE OF ETHICS if it remains dormant for a period of (2) year without any Beneficiary&rsquo;s claims. In this regard, I earnestly need your full cooperation in transferring this dormant fund out of our bank to avoid confiscating this fund. I will split the transfer into two 2 stages for easy and smooth transfer into any account you will provide for me even if it is a newly open account without no money. All modalities has being well planned

First, I will transfer $10.000.000. To any valid foreign account you will nominate, upon a successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, I will then fly to meet you in your home destination for sharing, and there after we jointly transfer the remaining balance of $6.000.000. For magnitude investments in your country.

If you are willing to cooperate in this project, I will give you more details immediately as soon as I hear from you. Please note that you are required to keep this very confidential. For more details and your share/percentage will be disclosed to you on your respond.

Please get back to me on my private email address:mrdumisanimthobisi@barid.com
&nbsp;Mobile +27-731676285

Yours truly,
Mr Dumisani Mthobisi
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