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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:
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "you will take 25%" (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)
  • "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • vanisha_sekai@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss .Vanisha Sekai." <vanisha_sekai101@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: vanisha_sekai@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 08:17:12 -0700
Subject: THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU.

Please permit me however to briefly introduce myself. My name is miss Vanisha Sekai,
The daughter of Mr. Paul Omago Sekai of blessed memory from Zimbabwe, I am 19 years.my late father was a politician and a gold,precious stone merchant.He was brutally murdered by president Robert mugabe`s killer squad in zimbabwe Before my fathers death, he had deposited in a bank the sum of(Six Million,five hundred thousand United States dollars).($6.500,000.00).

After the death of my father a lot of cold killings and destruction continued, then the red cross society of Zimbabwe took me and arranged my re-location to London under political asylum as a refugee. Now i am in a refugee camp seeking for foriegn
partners overseas that will assist me to transfer to him or her the money in Barclay's bank in his or her account and also help me to secure my freedom from this refugee camp because i have made up my mind that i cannot continue to live in this camp.As an asylum seeker i am not allowed by law to operate any bank account or involve in any moneytary transaction .
I am my late fathers next of kin and i have all vital documents regarding the deposit of the money in Bank Transfer,when you receive the money in your account in your country,you will take 25% of the total money for your sincere assistance and 5% of the money wil lbe set aside to offset all expences and taxes that may likely be incured in the course of the transaction.

You will as well assist me in any area of making profitable investment with my own money. I want truth,honesty and transparency to be our watch word in this transaction and please treat this transaction with strict confidentiality for successful out come of it. All I want you to do now is to furnish me with a your private e-mail address for easy and urgent communication,OR your mail me VIA vanisha_sekai@hotmail.com <mailto:vanisha_sekai@hotmail.com> Note importantly that this transaction is risk free and requires absolute confidentiality.

I am waiting for your quick response.
Thanks
and remain blessed.

Sincerely ,
Vanisha Sekai.

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