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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: "kuhbeka johanness" <kuhbeka_johanness9@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:01:59 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.

FROM: MRS. KUHBEKA JOHANNESS.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL: +27-82-426-1614
EMAIL: KUHBEKA_JOHANNESS@HOTMAIL.COM
ATTNMANAGING DIRECTO/ CEO,
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.

My name is KUHBEKA JOHANNESS, the wife of Mr. ADAMS JOHANNESS from Zimbabwe.
This might be a surprise to you about where I got your contact address. I
got your address when I was during a search in the Internet AND COMPANIES
profiles to find a liable person who will assist our family in this
TRANSACTION. During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the
supports of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms
to his party members and his followers, he ordered all THE white farmers to
surrender all THEIR farms to his party members and his followers. My Husband
is One of the best farmers in our country and because he did not support
Mugabes ideas, Mugabes supports invaded my husband's farm and burnt
everything in the farm, killing my husband and made away with a lot of items
in my husband's farm. Before his death, my husband had deposited with the
Security Company in Johannesburg, South Africa the sum of US$20 MILLION
(TWENTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS).

After the death of my husband, we decided to move to the Republic of South
Africa where he had deposited the money in the Security Company as
valuables. So I decided to contact overseas firm and companies that will
assist me to move this money out of South Africa because as asylum seekers
we are not allowed to operate any Bank Account within South Africa. We have
agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum for your assistance,5% will be
mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of this
transaction while 70% will be for me and my family to invest in your
country. All I want you to do is to furnish me with your entire personal
phone and fax numbers for easy communication. Or my E-mail address. Note
that this transaction is 100% Risk free and absolutely confidential. Thanks
and God bless. I plead for assistance in the name of Jehovah Intercessor to
give me a helping hand. Best Regards

MRS. KUHBEKA JOHANNESS.
[For the family)

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