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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: "Rita Malongo" <rt_malongo@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: rt_malongo@k.ro
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:37:25 +0100
Subject: From Rita Malongo


I write on the behalf of my boss to solicit your assistance in a project of mutual benefit.

I am the confidential secretary to my boss who is a Director in the Directorate of Health Financing in the Ministry of Health in South Africa.We had a bugdetary allocation of US$22 Million given by our government in February,2001 to research in finding a local cure to the sickle cell disease.

The director funded a team of clinical pharmacologists to conduct a research on the effect of a "local plant extract" on Sickle Cell Disease in south Africa. The research has since been concluded (specifically in October 2004)., Of the total amount given by our government for the research purposes only US$10 Million was expended leaving a balance of US$12 Million.

My boss has directed me to solicit a potential individual/organisation with a view that a safe haven can be provided for the balance of the funds (USD12 Million) that is presently in a bank. My boss has put in over 25 years of his life into working for the government with little to show for it, hence this opportunity is seen as a God sent one.

I sincerely hope that you will be of assistance. I implore you to treat this mail as confidential as possible as myself and my boss is still serving, though my boss intend to retire in the last quarter of 2005.

Please reach me on my email for now.If you are not in a position to assist us, do not respond to this mail and I apologize for taking your time.

Best regards,

Rita Malongo


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