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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)
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Dorah Mpems" <depenza37@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: depenza@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:01:22 +0200
Subject: Please Reply

FROM: Mrs Deborah Mpenza .
Residence: 147 Illovo Street Sandton
Johannesburg- South Africa.

Dear Sir,

Due to my careful search for an honest, reliable and sincere business
Partner, I got your contact from internet and I ask if you can be
Trusted not to break an agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my mind
to contact you and to offer you this proposal of mine of which my whole
life depends on.
My name is Mrs. Deborah Mpenza, the wife of Late Mr. George Mpenza. A
Zimbabwe business Man, politician and Farmer. During the current
crises against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporters of President
Robert Mugabe, of which they claim all the white-owned farms to his party
members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrender all
farms to his party members and his followers.
My Husband is One of the most successful multi- farmers in our
Country and because he did not support Mugabe`s ideas, Mugabe's supporters
invaded his farm and burnt everything in the farm, killing him and made away
with a lot of items in my husband's farm.
Before his death, my husband had deposited with a security company in
South Africa the sum of (USD $6MILLION). (The documents of which he only
made me aware of it).After the death of my husband , I decided to move to
Republic of South Africa where I re-located under political asylum as a
refugee to seek for foreign partner overseas that will assist me to move
this money out of the security company to HIS country
As an asylum seeker I am not allowed to operate any Bank Account within
South Africa .I have agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for your
assistance as soon as the money gets into your account. I want truth
and honest to be our watch word in this transaction and please treat this
transaction with strictly confidential for the successful out come of it.
All I want you to do is to furnish me with your personal phone and fax
numbers and also your private e-mail address for easy and urgent
communication.
Note that this transaction is 100% Risk free and absolutely
confidential.

Thanks and God bless you.
Sincerely Yours,
Mrs. Deborah Mpenza.

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