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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: "Johnson Banton" <johnsonbantons@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: johnsonsbanton@zwallet.com
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:30:58 -0500
Subject: Grant Review

Standard Bank Mozambique
MoStanPraça 25 de Junho No 1
Maputo S.W.I.F.T. - BSTM MZ MA
Moçambique
Email: johnsonbanton@zwallet.com

Dear Friend.

This may sound too good to be true as you may think but believe me it is real and it is happening in some banks especially in Africa.

Most of the African leaders are a disgrace to mankind and God will punish them for making the people suffer.

Meanwhile, before i proceed further, let me let you know briefly about myself, as this is email communication i will not write much for confidentiality purposes.

I am heading a team of International Investigator that was mandated for Audit to cross-check the banking activities of some of these African leaders, you can not believe what i found out in most Standard Bank and Stanbic branches was not too encouraging and i have to let people know what is going on in Africa, i have visited these locations Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Congo, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, Lesotho, Namibia, Mauritius, Swaziland, and presently in the above stated address for two -three weeks before moving to another branch. Some of these Funds have been abandoned and some seized by the bank because of illegal transfer activities.

However, a lot of funds has been discovered and we have mapped out some part of the funds for a program that will be used to improve the life's of the world population through setting up a foundation Grant (donations) to invest in charitable organizations and individuals in every country totaling Four Million Pounds. Upon the release of these Funds, we will send an agent to the country to monitor the impact made on a periodic basis, and based on our agent's report, more funds will be approved on yearly bases.

All Funding assistants are selected through a computer database ballot system (C.D.B.S) drawn from 346,997,000 names from Australia, USA, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, Africa, Middle East and South-North America. This is part of our international Funding program that we shall conduct once in a year.

Let me know if you are interested in any such funding as we may work out modalities of helping ourselves and other, as my major concern is to invest on projects with people affected with disasters, like the Tsunami disaster and those families in the U.S or the world who lost their love ones in the war.

Thanks
Johnson Banton

Send me reply to this Email: johnsonbanton@zwallet.com

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