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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: tonmod_300@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:42:46 +0200
Subject: private and confidential

FROM:MR ANTHONY MODISE
NO 62 KATOLD STREET,
HONEY DEW
JOHANNESBURG, RSA
TEL.+ 27- 83-929-8036


PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

ATTN: SIR/MADAM ,

Before I start, I must first apologize for this unsolicited mail to you. I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to establishing a relationship, but you will realize the need for my action.

My Name is ANTHONY MODISE, the director of consignment lodge and memorandum of agreement department of king security company pty ltd. With respect to the fact that we do not know each other before, please I will like to know your interest in this transaction. Actually, your contact
was via S.A.I.I.E.B.(South African International Internet Exchange Bureau) here in Johannesburg while I was searching for a reputable confidential and honest person to do this business together.

FULL UNDERSTANDING

There is a consignment deposited in this company on 28th August 1992 and since 1998, nobody has operated on this consignment again. After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of this consignment was MR ANDREW YOUNG, a foreigner, and a miner at Kruger gold co., a geologist by profession who died on year 1999 in a fatal motor accident. He deposited one metal box targed under diplomatic as a consignment NO.SSCO21900 valuable
worth of Forty million united states dollars {$40M} And since year 2000 no other person has come for it and my investigation as well proved to me that his company does not know any thing about this consignment. Because the deed of depositary has no beneficiary.

The consignment is described in the subject to all conditions and servitude {if any} attaching thereof or mentioned as referred to in is titled deed of prior deed. The need of contacting you as regards to this transaction is for you to stand as a foreign Guarantor and the next of kin to this consignment, then With my position now in the office I can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing and note that this transaction can only take us a short time to conclude, because all the necessary documentation needed for this transaction is with me now and there is no risk involved.

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