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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: "Charles Kabila" <charleskabila@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: chaleskabila@zwallet.com
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:55:33 +0200
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE

JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.

TEL:+27-73-215-6
E-mail:charleskabila@zwallet.com

Dear Friend.
URGENT ASSISTANCE

I know you will be surprise to receive this but do
please consider it a request from a suffering family
in serious need of your humble assistance.My family
had to bring before you this proposal because we
sincerely hope you will be reliable to assist us.
Anyway,my name is Charles kabila,I am the first son to
the second wife of the assassinated President of the
Democratic Republic of Congo ,late Laurent Kabila.My
mother got your contact information through a family
friend who works with the South African chamber of
Commerce and Industry.

Six months before the assassination of my father,he had
used my name to deposit in a metal box the sum of
seventeen million United States Dollars [us$17m] in a
vault of a private security firm in Johannesburg,
South Africa.The security company does not know the
actual content of the box deposited with them since
my father declared it to be precious metals.

This money was to be used for his second tenure election
campaign bid but unfortunately,his own personal aide
assassinated him in a palace coup on the early hour of
January 16th, 2001.Since my father's death,my stepmother
has continued to be extremely mean and discriminatory to us
in the family scheme of things because his son, Mr.Joseph Kabila,
now rule as president.

She has even arbitrarily accused my mother
of having masterminded our father's assassination and
all sorts of groundless accusations. As a result of
these,I decided to move my family to South Africa.
Right now,I am staying with my family here in
Johannesburg as a refugees. I have now decided to
divert this money for our own personal use but we
would want to get it transferred outside the continent
for our onward investment purposes.

We do not want to invest here due to the volatile and
sensitive status of the region.As an international
partner,I genuinely solicit that you kindly help me
and my family transfer this money into your country
through your personal or your company's bank account
for safekeeping pending my immediate arrival for
onward investments,which we are going to rely on you
heavily to help us materialise this money will be paid
you be the security company officials as a representative
of the of my family

I must stress here that there is no risk of any kind
since our Attorney have mapped out a very perfect and
smooth-free plans that will be concluded within
a maximum of five working days of receiving your approval.

Our lawyer will also send you the deposit certificate and
other documents that you will need to present to the Security
company before they will hand over the cargo box to you as agreed
with my father.

We have resolved to offer you [20%] of the money for your
assistance and every expense out-rightly subject to instant refund.

The rest will be for investments in your country or anywhere
you might suggest.Further discussions will commence
when we here from you but do not forget the absolute
confidentiality and mutual trust required in this
transaction. Kindly contact us through E-mail:chaleskabila@zwallet.com
should this proposal happen to meet your utmost considerations.

Endeavour to email me the following information to E-mail:chaleskabila@zwallet.com

Names, Address, Phone and Fax Numbers, Age, Sex, Marital Status and Occupation.


Thanks for your co-operation.God bless.

Best Regard,

Charles Kabila[Mr.].

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