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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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Please note about this email:

• It lists mobile phone numbers or call redirection numbers (no bank, lottery, etc would use mobile phones to take customer calls).
  
• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Vincent Pamire" <vincentpamire33@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:14:54 +0000
Subject: ASKING FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE

FROM: MR. VINCENT MOLOMBA.

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

TEL:+27-83-358-1888

Email Address:(vincentpamire12@yahoo.co.uk)

 

                                           VERY CONFIDENTIAL.  

ATTN: SIR/MADAM,

I am MR. VINCENT MOLOMBA the elder son of MR.PAMIRE .J. MOLOMBA of Zimbabwe. This might be a surprise to you about where I got your contact address. I got your address from the South African Information Network Online (S.A.I.N.O) Johannesburg.

During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supports of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrender all their farms to his party members and his followers. My father is one of the best farmers in our country and because he did not support Mugabe's ideas, Mugabes supporters invaded my father's farm and burnt everything in the farm, killing my father and made away with a lot of items in my father's farm.

Before his death, my father had deposited with one of the Security Company in Johannesburg, South Africa the sum of (US$15.7M) fifteen Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars. With my name as the elder son, then after the death of my father, we decided to move to the Republic of South Africa where he had deposited the money in the Security Company as family valuables treasure box, to avoid much demurrages or to raise an eyebrow from the Security Company.

So, I decided to contact an overseas firm and company that will assist me to move this money out of South Africa because as asylum seekers we are not allowed to operate in any bank account within South Africa.

Permit me to ask these few questions as my guardian-

(1) Can you honestly help me as your son?

(2) How can I completely trust you?

(3) Can you be able to invest this money for us in any profitable business?

Therefore if this transaction is acceptable to you, we are willing to offer you 25% of the total sum. While 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of this transaction. While 70% will be for my family and I for the investment in your country.

All I want you to do is to furnish me with your entire personal details phone and fax numbers for easy comunication. You can contact me on the above Telephone numbers. Note that this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely confidential. Thanks in anticipation to read from you soon. Looking forwards for a good business relationship with you.

Best Regards,

MR VINCENT MOLOMBA. (FOR THE FAMILY)

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