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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27732578887 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Donald Moore" <mrdona_1959@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: khe_mail@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 08:37:53 +0200
Subject: Private inquiry/Reminder

RE: TRANSFER OF ($26,000.000.00 USD}
TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS
Hello Dear,

We want to transfer to overseas account ($26,000.000.00 USD) Twenty six
million United States Dollars) from a Prime Bank here in South Africa, I
want to ask you, If you are capable and fit to provide either an existing
bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money
even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will
remain honest to me till the end for this important business, trusting in
you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in
future.

I work with the Auditing Department of one of the prime banks here in South
Africa, during the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in
an account opened in the bank in 1996 and since 1998 nobody has operated on
this account again, after going through some old files in the records I
discovered that the owner of the account died with out a [Heir/WILL] hence
the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will
be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is a foreigner, a great
industrialist, he died since 1998.No other person knows about this account
or any thing concerning it, the account has no one as Next of Kin and my
investigation proved to me as well that until his sudden death.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local person here in South Africa. However, we will sign a
binding agreement, to bind us together when we meet face to face. I am
revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in
this deal, you are the first out of three contact that I am contacting for
this deal, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step
to take urgently. Send also your private telephone and fax number.

I Need your full co-operation to make this deal work fine because the
management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who we present
with the correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon
your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable also I
will need your strong assurance that you will never, ever let us down, At
the conclusion of this business. More details will send to you once you
accept this offer

I look forward to your earliest reply through my email address,

Thanks and God bless.
My regards,
Donald Moore
+27 73 257 8887

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