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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: "douglas komo" <douglaskomo53@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:54:02 +0000
Subject: TRANSACTION

FROM: DOUGLAS KOMO
PHONE:+27-73-188 0290.

Dear;

I pray this proposal meet your kind cooperation. I am Mr.DOUGLAS KOMO a
native of Cape Town in South Africa and I am an Executive Accountant with
the South Africa Department of Mining & Natural Resources. First and
foremost, I apologized using this medium to reach you for a
transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to Confidentiality
and prompt access reposed on this medium. Be informed that a member of the
South Africa Export Promotion Council (SEPC) who was at the Government
delegation to your country during a trade exhibition gave your enviable
credentials/particulars to me. I plea to seek a confidential co-operation
with you in the execution of the deal described Hereunder for the benefit of
all parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature
of this transaction.

Within the Department of Mining & Natural Resources where I work as an
Executive Accountant and with the cooperation of two other top officials, we
have in our
possession as overdue payment bills totaling Forty - Five Million, Five
Hundred And Sixty Thousand U. S. Dollars ($45,560,000.) which we want to
transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a foreign
company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable
foreign non-company account to receive such funds. More so, we are
handicapped in the circumstances, as the South Africa Civil Service Code of
Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore account hence your importance
in the whole transaction.

This amount $45.560m represents the balance of the total contract value
executed on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm, which we
the officials over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract cost
have been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in the tune
of the said amount which we have in principles gotten approval to remit by
Telegraphic Transfer (T.T) to any foreign bank account you will provide by
filing in an application through the Justice Ministry here in South Africa
for the transfer of rights and privileges of the former contractor to you.

I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that, should you be
willing to assist us in this transaction that is 100% hitch free, your share
of the sum will be 25% of the $45.560 million, 70% for us and 5% for
taxation and miscellaneous expenses. The business itself is 100% safe, on
your part provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality.
Also your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful
execution of this transaction. I have reposed my confidence in you and hope
that you will not disappoint me. Endeavor to contact me immediately through
my above Tel number or my e-mail address, whether or not you are interested
in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another foreign
partner to carry out this deal I want to assure you that my partners and
myself are in a position to make the payment of this claim possible provided
you can give us a very strong Assurance and guarantee that our share will be
secured and please remember to treat this as very confidential because, we
will not comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active
Government Service and remember once again that time is of the essence in
this business.

I await in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.And you can also reach
me with this private PHONE NUMBER 27-731-880-290 FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Yours faithfully,

MR. DOUGLAS KOMO

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