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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: "louis adams" <louisadams44@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:32:15 +0200
Subject: STRICLY CONFIDENTIAL

ATTN:DIRECTOR/CEO

STRICLY CONFIDENTIAL

I am Mr. LOUIS Adams a senior staff and chairman "Tender Board Committee"
on the award of contracts in Department of Works and Housing here in South
Africa. I got your contact E-mail address from a secure server online in my
quest to find a trustworthy person on whom I can repose confidence for a
transaction of this nature.

My aim of sending this "business proposal" to you is to solicit for your
assistance and co-operation to transfer some huge amount of money into your
account overseas. Therefore, this communication should be held in high
confidence.

My colleagues and I in the Department of Works and Land Affairs wish to
transfer into a safe and secured account overseas the sum of US$47M
(FORTY-SEVEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) which is over-invoiced amount
from contracts we awarded to foreign contractors who have been duly paid on
completion of their various contracts. This money right now is in a coded
account in the National Treasury of South Africa. However, by virtue of our
position as civil servants, we cannot acquire these funds in our names or in
the names of companies here in South Africa.

I was therefore asked by my colleagues on trust and sincerity to look for a
reliable internatioal outfit/ partner abroad into whose account the sum of
US$47 Million will be transferred. We have agreed on the sharing ratio of
70% for us and 30% for you as the account owner.

My choice of you for this transaction is basically hanged on trust and I
hope you will not let me down.

Please, be informed that arrangemenents will be made for the processing of
claims of
payment once I am in receipt of the information required from you, and the
funds
will get into your account within 7 working days by Telegrephic
Transfer(T.T).


Note as well that this transaction is 100% risk free.

I wait for your very urgent response.

Best Regards

LOUIS Adams

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