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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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)
  • "is 100% 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 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.
  • +27836236226 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "jane rossman" <jrossman008@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rossman_j4@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:41:58 +0200
Subject: EMINENTLY CONFIDENTIAL

EMINENTLY CONFIDENTIAL
From: Mrs. JANE ROSSMAN
5 OUTSPAN ROAD MORNINGSIDE SANDTON ,
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA
TEL:+27-83-623-6226
FAX:+27-11-507-5531

Dearest,

With due respect, trust and humility, I write you this proposal, which I
believe, would be of great interest to you. I found your contact while I was
doing a private research on the internet for a reliable and capable foreign
partner that will assist me and my family. I am MRS.JANE ROSSMAN the wife of
MR.KENNETH ROSSMAN (late) of Zimbabwe.

During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from the support of
our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our
country, all the white farmers were ordered to surrender their farms to his
party members and his followers. My husband who was one of the best farmers
in our country and treasury of the farmers’s co-operation did not support
his idea and so the party members invaded my husband’s farms and burnt
everything in the farm, killed my husband and made away with a lot of items
in my husband’s farm.

After the death of my husband, my children and I decided to move out of
Zimbabwe because of our lives were in danger with the money that my husband
kept in his hidden safe in my house. The amount contained in the safe in my
house is US$12m(Twelve million US Dollars) and we decided to move to the
Republic of South Africa where we deposited the money in a Security Company
as a valuable item. So I decided to make contact with an overseas firm whom
will assist me to move this money out of South Africa, because we are asylum
seekers here in South Africa.

So if you consider this proposal, we have agreed to give you 25% of the
total sum for helping us to move this money out to your country and 10% will
be mapped out for expenses both of us may incur during this transaction and
65%will be for me and my family to invest in your country. All I want is for
you to furnish me with all your banking details and your personal phone and
mail for easy communication. You can contact my son PRINCE ROSSMAN (Mr) on
the above telephone number or mail.

NOTE: hat this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely confidential.

Thanks and God bless you.

Best Regards,
JANE ROSSMAN (MRS)(For The Family)

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