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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +27781314811 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • alex_williams200@yahoo.com
  • ben_themba7@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ben themba" <ben_themba7@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:27:26 +0000
Subject: Thank you.

Dear Heida Gottslich,

Thank you very much for your prompt reply to my mail, how are you today I
hope all is well with you and your family.

The content of your mail is well understood and noted. I would like you to
contact the lawyer Barrister Alex Williams on his direct telephone
number+27-78-131-4811 or send an email to him at alex_williams200@yahoo.com
because as I have already told him about you that you are my partner in this
transaction so right now he is waiting to hear from you as soon as possible.

All the documents in regards to the depository of the funds with the
security company is with him so I would want you to contact him so as to
give you all relevant information as to how we can conclude the transaction
and also I want you to come down to South Africa and see things for your
self, seeing they said is believing

Further more I still want to reassured you of 100% risk free of this
transaction and everything that we would do in this transaction is legal
because the money belongs to my late father which the title is in my name
and the lawyer is the one that would make the changes in the document to
bear your name as the new beneficiary of the fund.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Ben Themba.


























>From: Heida Gottslich <HGottsl589@mozartmail.info>
>Reply-To: HGottsl589@mozartmail.info
>To: ben_themba7@hotmail.com
>Subject: RE:Thank you.
>Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:03:49 +0100
>
>
>Thank you so much for your really fine reply.
>
>Just recently I saw with my own eyes a handsome bird flit around my
>bathroom. I believe it was a dove pigeon. In the end it got out via the
>open window. I was wondering if it is an omen.
>
>In any case, I would like to be frank. I have expended a long while
>examining your letter and I am still unassured that I comprehend everything
>totally.
>
>Pardon me for asking but are you serious what you are proposing is legal?
>
>Now I will wait for a response from you please.
>
>compliments,
>
>Frau Gottslich
>
>No place to run. No reason to hide. http://www.ppmusic.com/music/comp15.htm

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