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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: "MRS RITA EDWARDS" <mrsedrita@technisamail.co.za> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:27:12 +0100
Subject: Would u help?

MRS. RITA EDWARDS

E-mail:mrsedrita@technisamail.co.za

My Dear,

I am Mrs. Rita Edwards. Wife of late John Edwards, a successful Zimbabwe white farmer my husband was murdered while struggling against the confiscation of farmland and properties owned by white farmers in Zimbabwe, asking us to surrender our farmlands/properties and funds generated through farming to black indigenous farmers.

My aim of contacting you is to solicit your partnership for a claim and investment of $10.000,000. (Ten Million United States Dollars) into a lucrative business in your country.

Find more stories here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1210883.stm

Send your reply through my Lawyer indicating your willingness; I will send through him all relevant information and documents to back you up for a hitch free transfer of the funds.


Barrister: David Zazu
Email: office_zazuchambers@yahoo.com


Yours truly,

Mrs. Rita Edwards






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