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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: "Tamono Zambezi" <tzambezi@pnetmail.co.za> (may be fake)
Reply-To: tzambezi@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:33:02 +0200
Subject: For Your Kind Attention




Mr Tamono Zambezi
Pretoria
South Africa
Private Email:tzambezi@yahoo.com


FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION:

I am Engineer Tamono Zambezi,a Native of Cape Town in South Africa and I am an Engineer working
with the South Africa Department of Mining & Energy.

First and foremost I apologise for using this medium to reach you for a transaction 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 part of my government delegation to your country during a recent Trade Exhibition gave your enviable credentials/particulars to me while assuring me on your competence to handle a business transaction involving a large sum of money with absolute confidentiality.

Therefore I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described hereunder for the benefit of all parties and while hoping you will keep it as top secret because of the nature of this transaction.Within the Department of Mining & Energy where I work as a director and with the cooperation of three other top officials, we have in our possession an overdue contract payment bills totalling Twenty Million,five Hundred Thousand united states dollars(S$20,500,000.00).This money which we intend to process its transfer as a form of contract payment into a reliable company/individual account depending on your convenience.

Your assistance and co-operation is required due to the circumstances surrounding our work as
government officials whereby the South Africa Civil Service Code of Conduct does not allow us to
operate an Offshore Bank account hence your importance in the whole transaction.
Presently, this amount (US$20.5M) representing 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 is lying unclaimed in the government escrow bank account with Reserve Bank of South
Africa.We hereby seek your assistance and co-operation that will enable us to process this sum of
money to you as a form of contract payment.

We have the necessary authority to validate and forward approvals of outstanding contract claims
to the government for final payment on approval through the Reserve Bank of South Africa (SARB).
All partners agreed while mandating me to propose that should you be willing to assist us in the
transaction, your share of the sum will be 30% of the US$20.5 million,65% will be for us and 5%
for any expenses incurred in the course of this project including telephone and fax bills.

The business itself is 100% safe on your part provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and
confidentiality.Also note that your area of specialisation is not an hindrance to the successful
execution of this transaction.

I have reposed my confidence in you while awaiting your prompt response through the email address
above to notify me of your capability to assist us in achieving success in this transaction.
Finally on your part,we will appreciate you treat this transaction as a very confidential while
we assure of a 100% risk free transaction provided you follow our instruction totally.

I await your confirmation of my message while praying that this will be the begining of a
lifelong partnership between us. Thank you for your co-operation.

Yours faithfully,
Tamono Zambezi

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