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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: "Christopher S" <sisulu1955@surimail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:07:46 +0000
Subject: research grant

From: Mr. Christopher SiSulu
Chief Accounts Officer, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa.
I am Christopher Sisulu, the Head of Accounts Department of
the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

I write to solicit your assistance in a project of mutual benefit. We
got your contact over the Internet.

In February 1999, a research grant of US$12.5Million was given to the
Pharmacology Department, by the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa
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 August 2002. Of
the total amount allocated for the research purposes, only
US$4.623Million was spent leaving a balance of US$7.877 Million.

We are contacting you with the hope that you will be in a position to
assisting us in transferring this balance out for our own use. If we do
not, the funds will be diverted for use by very corrupt public
officials in my country. We guarantee that this transaction will be 100%
hitch-free and we will negotiate what your percentage of the total would be
if you accept to assist us.

We (I and my colleagues) have put in over 25 years of our lives into
working for the government and do NOT have anything to show for it, hence
this opportunity we see as a God-Sent one. We sincerely hope that
you will be of assistance to us. I implore you to treat this mail as
confidentially as possible as we are still active workers with the
government of South Africa (Finance Ministry), though retiring in the first
quarter of next year.

I am currently in the United Kingdom and will be here for a couple of
months. I can be reached on: +44 787 787 9304 email: christopher1955@walla.com
If you are in a position to assist, then get back to me and I will give
you details we have put in place to actualize our goals.

If you cannot help us, do not respond to this letter and we apologize for taking your
time.



Sincerely yours
Christopher S.
Tel:+44 787 787 9304
email: christopher1955@walla.com

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