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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • gordon_brown@k.ro

Fraud email example:

From: "gordon masakela" <gordonmasakela500th@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 15:58:36 +0000
Subject: FOR YOUR PERUSAL.


I am Dr. Gordon Brown Masakela, Director of Project, South Africa Department
of Minerals and Energy. I am making this contact with you based on the
committee's need for an individual/company who is willing to assist us with
a solution to a money transfer.
This amount $28.5m represents the balance of the total contract value
executed on behalf of Department of Minerals and Energy by a foreign
contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately, of
which the actual sum has been paid.
Should you be willing to assist us in the transaction, your share of the sum
will be 25% of the $28.5 million, 70% for us and 5% for taxation and
miscelleneous expenses.
I await your immediate response.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Gordon Brown Masakela
N.B Please reply to gordon_brown@k.ro with your confidential phone and fax
number to enable me contact you for further clarifications.

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