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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: "Dr Dialo Mugane" <contacts@informationworld.org>
Reply-To: JOHNSON_TUBMAN_1@k.ro
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 23:22:06 +0000
Subject: From:South Africa.

Dear Friend,
I know this letter may come to you as a surprise, but I implore you to
take it in good faith, as this is the only possible medium available to me
to make contact, due to the precarious situation we are presently faced with
here.

My name is Dr. Diallo Mugane, a South African and close confidant to the
former South African Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, who was recently relieved
of his position over matters pertaining to fund.

Am urgently and discreetly searching for a reliable person/foreigner abroad
who has the capacity to assist us in our present situation, in matters
relating to huge fund that we need to transfer to a safe account abroad.
For obvious reasons, I do not want to go into details at this point until am
convinced of your readiness to assist us with the completion of this
project.

However if you know you have the capacity and you are interested, please
contact me urgently via my personal email address: <dialo_mugane02@k.ro>, so
I can seek for a more secured avenue to communicate further details of this
transaction and also negotiate what will come to you for your assistance.

Because of the profile of the persons involved in this transaction, I urge
you to keep this contact strictly confidential and be rest assured that we
all stand to benefit greatly in this transaction in the shortest possible
time, provided we find a common ground to work together to realize this
windfall. To have insight into our situation, please check on the web link
below (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4092064.stm).

I await your urgent response and look forward to a fruitful co-operation.

Sincerely,

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