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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: "BAFA KHUMALO" <bafakhumaloabsa@webmail.co.za> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 02:08:18 +0200
Subject: GOOD DAY

Mr. Bafa Khumalo
Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dear Sir,

I am Mr. Bafa Khumalo, manager of bills/exchange at the foreign remittance department of
ABSA Bank Limited. In my department, we discovered
an abandoned sum of US$14,700,000.00 (Fourteen Million, Seven Hundred Thousand
United State Dollars only) in an account that belonged to
one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family, on November 1994, in a
ghastly plane crash. Since we got information about his
death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and claim his money because
we can not release it unless somebody applied for it as
next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this money.

It is based on this that some officials in my department and I ha! ve decided to establish a
cordial business relationship with you, hence my contacting
you. We want you to present yourself as the next of kin or relation of the deceased, so
that the funds can be remitted into your account.

Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the government account as unclaimed
bills. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that any
account abandoned or is dormant for a period of years, is deemed closed and all money
contained therein forfeited to the government treasury
account.

Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into the government
account as an unclaimed fund on or before December 2004.
The reason for requesting you to present yourself as next of kin, is occasioned by, the fact
that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner.

The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your account, shall be
75% to my colleagues and I, for the! role you will be
expected to play in this deal, we have agreed to give you 15% of the total sum and 10%
for the expenses we are going to encounter by the two
parties at the course of this transaction. Therefore, you are expected to reply this letter
indicating your readiness and interest to participate in this
business. After receiving your reply, you will be communicated to with the exact steps to
take.

I expect your urgent response to enable us conclude this transaction urgently without any
hitch via bafakhumalo@maktoob.com.


Please treat this business proposal as strictly confidential for security reasons.

Personal Regards,

Bafa Khumalo.

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