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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: "claims award" <claimsaward@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:01:28 +0000
Subject: RE: CAPITAL INVESTMENT

ATTENTION SIR/MADAM,

I am ENGR.MIKE CHAKA chairman of the contract award committee of the
Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources ministry here in South Africa. For
security reasons, I may not wish to disclose how I got your email address
for now. After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you
this business proposal, we want you to assist us receive the sum of EIGHT
MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLAR BILLS (USD8.5m) into your
account.

This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us under the
budget allocation to my ministry and the bill was approved for payment by
the concerned ministries. The contract was executed, commissioned and the
contractor was paid his actual cost of the contract. Now, we are left with
the balance of USD8.5M as the over invoiced amount, which we have
deliberately over estimated for our own use. Please note that the laws
forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign accounts hence this
contact, we have agreed to share the money in the following percentages: 30%
for you, 60% for us 10% for tax as may be required by your government.

Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk hence
the business was carefully planned before it was successfully executed and
we the officials involved in the deal have put many years in service to our
ministry.

We have been exercising patience for this privilege for so long not until
the presidential announcement last week, that all foreign contractors owed
be paid forthwith, this will enable the presidency reconcile our debt ratio
with the outside world and to most of us, this is a life time blessing we
cannot afford to miss.Upon indication of your interest to fully co-operate
with us, a payment Application /Information Form from our Paying Bank will
be sent to you for completion.

Note that the following information:
1,Bankers name and address.
2,Account number and Account name
3,Your private phone number and fax number will enable us seek/secure
approval of the fund from the concerned government quarters/ministries
within 3-4 banking days.
As soon as we confirm receipt of this money in your nominated bank account,
my partner and I will come over to your country to arrange for our own share
and possibly invest part of this money in your country. Let honesty and
trust be our watchword throughout this transaction.

I shall furnish you with some details about myself. Your prompt reply will
be highly appreciated.

Best regards.

ENGR.MIKE CHAKA.
TEL:+27-82-063-9392
EMAIL:engr.mikechaka64@webmail.co.za

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