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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million us 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 next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • drcyrilpaul3@mighty.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Cyril Paul" <drcyrilpaul1@mighty.co.za>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 23:35:19 -1200
Subject: MY GREETINGS TO YOU!!!

FROM:Dr.Cyril Paul (IICA)(PhD)

Greetings to you!

I hereby contact you personally concerning the situation in
my bank.I am Dr Cyril Paul, the Regional computing auditor
of (STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA) JOHANNESBURG BRANCH
(SBSA).I know that this message will come to you as a
surprise considering we don’t know ourselves before or
have we met with each other before. I have the courage to
look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable
for this important business believing that you will never
let me down either now or in future There is an account
opened in my bank in 1985 and since 1992 nobody has operated
on this account. After going through the records and old
files of the account I discovered that the account has been
dormant and if I do not remit this money out urgently it
will be forfeited and according to South Africa banking
laws and act of 1992,the money will be reverted back to the
government treasury after 15 years if there is no valid and
legal claimant. I need a foreign partner that I will present
as a relative to this late man.I have mapped out strategies
to transfer this money overseas for proper investment that
will benefit us. The owner of this account is Mr. Daniel
B.Jones, a foreigner, and a Miner at Kruger Gold Co. a
geologist by profession here in Johanessburg and he died
since 1990. No other person knows about this account or
any thing concerning the account, the account has no
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that
his company does not know anything about this account.The
amount involved is us$34,000,000 Thirty Four million
dollars. In order to transfer out this {Us$34,000,000}
Thirty four million us dollars I will need you as a
foreigner that i present as the beneficiary because this
money can not be approved to a local acoount here, but can
only be approved for payment to any foreigners account that
i wll present to my bank as the beneficiarys account,because
the former owner of the account is Mr.Daniel B Jones, who
is a foreigner too. I pray to God that you will never let
me down in this business, you are the only person that I
have contacted in this business, so please reply urgently so
that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. I
will want us to sign a binding agreement to bind us
together so that you can receive this money into a foreign
account or any account of your choice where the fund will
be safe.I need your full co-operation to make this work
fine. Because the management is ready to approve this
payment to any foreigner that i will present to them as the
beneficiary of the money I need a truthful person in this
business because I don't want to make mistake and I need
your strong assurance and trust. With my position now in
the office I can get approval for release of this money to
any foreigner's reliable account, which you are going
provide with assurance that this money will be intact
pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing as
will be agreed. I will destroy all documents of transaction
immediately we receive
this money leaving no trace to any place. I will use my
position and with the services of a very good banking lawyer
to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of this money
to your account with appropriate clearance forms of the
ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the
conclusion of this business, you will be given 50%of the
total amount, 50%will be for me and my family, I look
forward to your earliest reply through my e mail address.
Yours truly,
Dr Cyril Paul.
STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA
NOTE: you can as well write me through my alternative
Email address:(drcyrilpaul3@mighty.co.za)



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