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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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • danielgezi13@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "JOY GEZI" <joygezi36@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:33:05 +0200
Subject: FROM: MRS.JOY GEZI

FROM: MRS.JOY GEZI.
TELEPHONE: 0027 835 175 174





Good Day
I NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE

This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial as a matter of
urgency, I am desperately looking for a foreign partner whom i can trust to
handle some investment or fund movement am Mrs.JOY GEZI, wife of late
Mr.Frank Gezi, who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate
blackpeople.I am writing from South Africa got your address from the
internet through the consultancy directory during my search for a reliable
and honest person to transact this business
With.

I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a
tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling
party-president Robert Mugabe.Because of land and farm land crisis in
Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate
party members to disposes the land being occupied by white farmers. This
action has led to the killing of some members of opposition party including
my husband(Frank Gezi).

But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he
deposited the sum of US$15.4m(Fifteen million four hundred Thousand United
States Dollars)in the name of our only son Daniel Gezi, with the help of
reputable security company in south Africa with the intention of using it to
open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our
neighbouring country(Swaziland)after his university education.

the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into
our compound and axed him(my husband)to death. Since then, they have been
terrorizing my only son, Daniel Gezi, but we managed to escape to a
neighbouring country, South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee).
But our position in South Africa does not permit us to open an account or
run any huge financial business.

That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your private account so
that you will assist him to invest it in your country. Hence, if you agree
to assist us, we will offer you 20% of the money for your assistance,80%
will be for our family investment in your country through your assistance I
need your urgent and confidential response. You can contact my son Email Is
(danielgezi13@yahoo.com)

Best regards,

Mrs.JOY GEZI.
(For The Family).

Upon your immediate response will immediately arrange and send to you all
the information that will empower your good self in finalizing the
transaction with the security company here in south Africa I will also send
to you the agreement that will protect both interest. And also further
information about you is necessary for I can not play on this.

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