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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:
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • juniorrossman1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "junior rossman" <juniorrossman24@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:04:34 +0000
Subject: Urgent!

FROM: GRACE/JUNIOR ROSSMAN (MR).

TEL: + 27-83-9851412

EMAIL: juniorrossman1@yahoo.com


Dear Sir,


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.GRACE 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 treasurer of the farmer’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 inside this safe
is US$13.5m(Thirteen million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) and we
decided to take the money and 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/partner who 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 worthwhile doing, we have agreed to give
you 25% of the total sum for helping us to move this money out of south
Africa and 5% has been mapped out for expenses both of us may incur during
the course of this transaction and 70% will be for me and my family to
invest on in your country. All I want is for you to furnish me with your
details and your personal email address, phone and fax numbers for easy
communication. You can contact my son JUNIOR ROSSMAN (MR.) on the above
Telephone or e-mail address. NOTE: That this transaction is 100% risk free
and absolutely confidential.

N/B: The modalities to facilitate this transfer has been and will be
furnished to you, as you indicate your interest to assist this family.

Thanks and God bless you.


Best Regards!

JUNIOR ROSSMAN (MR).

(For The Family).

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