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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: "morris zulu" <morriszulu@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:56:40 +0200
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE

FROM:MR MORRIS ZULU
TEL:+ 27-83-955-7133
SOUTH AFRICA
DEAR SIR/MADAM,

URGENT RESPONSE

Let me start by introducing myself. I am MR.MORRIS ZULU a bank manager with
a commercial bank here in South Africa. I came to know about you in my
private search for a reliable person/company to handle a confidential
Portfolio that is under my supervision. During my visit to Pretoria, one of
my associates there, in confidence gave me your contact address. With strong
hope that you are my search, I decided to put before you this proposal.

The Portfolio:
A German man called Mr. Wolfgang Schiniter, 66 years of age and a prosperous
farmer had deposited with us a sum of TWENTY MILLION
DOLLARS(U.S.$20million). His wife Mrs. Helga Schiniter is the legitimate
beneficiary to this account. Unfortunately they were both killed in the air
crash involving Concord AF4590 in Gonesse, France.

Our search through the german embassy to find any of the next of kin, have
all proved fruitless.

According to the embassy, the couple had no offspring. The Firm is still
unrelenting in its effort to contact any of the relatives for possible claim
of this money, or the fund will be transfared to the government cofferes. In
order to avoid this development, my colleagues and I now seek your
permission to have you stand as a distant relative to Mr. Wolfgang Schiniter
so that the funds would be released to you.

All the documents and proofs of identity to further enable you get these
funds will be worked out.

We "the Firm", have secured the order of mandamus fom the court to serch and
locate any of the deceased relatives. This is why I am asking you to present
yourself as the possible closest next of kin.You would be entitled to 15% of
the fund on conclusion for your participation.

If your good self accsept to this request, I will then commence with the
procuement of the necessary documents to back your claim as the next of kin.

Thanks, we wait to hear from you.

Yours sincerely

MR MORRIS ZULU

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