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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: "werte mccarthy" <mccarthywerte2@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:05:08 +0000
Subject: we ask for your earnest assistance

8 ABRAM BOTHA AVENE
SANDTON .
SOUTH AFRICA.

Phone; 00 27-826-3494-82.

Attn; Raulin

I know that this message will come to you as a surprise since we do not know
each other before but for purpose of introduction, My name is McCARTHY
WERTE,the elder son of Mr. GEORGE SEISO WERTE of Zimbabwe.

So 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 white farmers to surrender
all their farms to his party members and his followers.
My father is one of the best farmers in our country and because he did not
support Mugabe's ideas.

Mugabe's supporters invaded my father's farm and burnt everything in the
farm, killing my father and made away with a lot of items in my father's
farm.
Before his death, my father had deposited with one of the Security Company
in Johannesburg, South Africa the sum of US$11. 5 Million (ELEVEEN MILLION
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS] and made every documents in my
name both the certificate of depositry.

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 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 20% of the total sum for
your assistance, 10% will be mapped out for any expenses that may be
incurred in the course of this transaction and 70% will be for me and my
familyto invest in your country.

All I want you to do is to furnish me with your personal phone and fax
numbers for easy communication. You can contact me on this e-mail/phone
call.
Note that this transaction is 100% risk free.

Thanks and God bless.
Regards,
McCarthy Werte.

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