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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: rosepascal@zwallet.com
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:50:32 +0200
Subject: My Family's sincere request for your honest assistance.

From: rosepascal@zwallet.com
To: rosepascal@zwallet.com
Subject: Personal request from Mrs. Rosemary Ncube.
Alternative Email:ncubefamily@easyinfomail.co.za
Tel of my son Pascal:+27 83 398 2545

Thank you for your attention, I must apologize firstly for contacting you
by Email because I had no other option, I am prepared to offer you a
substantial amount of money for you to assist my family in investing some
money in your country, my late husband, Mr.

Gibson Ncube is the owner of this money, I am contacting you with a great
sense of loss having just finished a customary 2 year period of mourning
for my late husband, Mr. Gibson Ncube,a black Zimbabwean farmer who was
attacked in his farm in the year 2
002 by the War veterans who took over the farm of my late husband, on the
night of this attack, I had managed to flee with my son and daughter from
the farm because my husband was tipped off that his farm was being
targeted to be attacked due to his posi

tion as Administrative secretary of the Matabeleland Movement for
Democratic Change(MDC), the main opposition party in my country Zimbabwe,I
lost my husband in october2002, four months after the attack because he
was hospitalized and passed away from his

injuries .I am contacting you with my son, Pascal, who is 32 years old. I
am equally gravely sick with Breast Cancer and require your honest
assistance as I am preparing to return to Zimbabwe to continually seek
medical treatment. My husband had managed

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