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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: "Dr Evans Thabani" <evansthabani@teambusinessinternational.org>
Reply-To: evansbani001@sify.com
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:11:25 +0000
Subject: BENEFIT

From : Dr. Evans Thabani.
Director of Projects, DME.SouthAfrica.

I am Dr. Evans Thabani, Director of Projects, 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 TWENTY EIGHT MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS
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. I want to assure you that myself and my partners 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 matter urgent and confidential,because we will not
comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active Government
Service, it is pertinent I inform you that time is of the essence in this
transaction.

Should you be willing to assist us in the transaction, your share of the sum
will be TWENTY FIVE PERCENT of the TWENTY EIGHT MILLION FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS , SEVENTY PERCENT for us and FIVE PERCENT for
taxation and miscellaneous expenses.

I await your immediate response.

Yours faithfully,

Dr. Evans Thabani.

N.B Please reply with your confidential phone and fax number to enable me
contact you for further clarifications.



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