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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: "ALFRED ALFONSO" <alfred_a@biglobeinc.net>
Reply-To: dr_alfred_alfonso@web2mail.com
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:20:24 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE !!

DR Alfred Alfonso
Mineralia Centre, 228 Visagie Street, Pretoria.
Republic of South Africa.

Dear Sir:

INVESTMENT REQUEST.

It is indeed my pleasure to write to you this letter, which I believe
will be a big surprise as we are both complete strangers.

I work for the ministry of Minerals and Energy in South Africa and by
this letter I am
representing and also acting on behalf of my boss and two other senior
colleagues (The Director-General and the Group General Manger)on whose
mandate I have got to contact a trusted and reliable foreign based
businessman,
concerning a business matter of mutual benefit to all.
By this mandate given to me, we are in dire need of a foreign partner
who will
assist us in the transfer/investment of USD 15,000,000.00 (Fifteen
million United States Dollars.)

The key issues are the transfer and the subsequent investment of the
said sum.We are ready to go into an agreement with you and also offer
you a
negotiable fee for putting together an investment portfolio.
It does not matter whether or not you own a company or you invested
funds before, we shall guide you on what to do.

The bases is major companies execute contract from my ministry and
they get paid lots of money from this ministry.More often, big trading
companies and firms of unrelated fields win contract and sublet such
contracts to more specialised firms for execution.
We shall not bore you with much explanation , Details will be made
available to you as soon as you reply.

You are to contact me only on this e-mail address specifically meant
for this business (dr_alfred_alfonso@web2mail.com),for confidentiality
purposes.

I await your urgent response.

Kind Regards,

DR. ALFRED ALFONSO


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