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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +27837517876 (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.
  • fred.khumalo@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: fr khu <fred.khumalo@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 13:26:39 +0200
Subject: letter from Mr Fred Khumalo.




Dear Sir/Madam

Its my Pleasure writing you, I am Mr. Fred Khumalo, the manager in charge =
of
auditing and accounting Unit of a bank here in South Africa . I and mine c=
olleagues
at the Foreign operaions Department of our bank deem it necessary to conta=
ct you with regards to a
very confidential transaction that will benefit us all at the end hence we=
solicit for
your cooperation. I got your contact in my search for a reputable and reli=
able
person to help and assist us claim the fund in question.
We were consulted by a legal firm representing one of our deceased custome=
r who is
late by name Mr. Mohamed Mohd, a geologist and mining consultant here in s=
outh
Africa.=20

The legal firm disclosed to us that the sum of eighteen million one hundre=
d
t housand Unite d States Dollars (USD18.1M) belonging to the deceased cust=
omer of
theirs has been lying unclaimed for years now with our bank. The fund has =
been lying
in a suspense account without anybody coming to put claim for the money fo=
r years
now, since the account owner late Mr. Mohamed Mohd from Lebanon, who was i=
nvolved in
the December
25th Republic of Benin plane crash. Here is the air
crashwebsite=3Dhttp://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.=
html

The said fund has been lying dormant and unclaimed for a very long time no=
w and
nobody has come up for claims, We will arrange and prepare all legal docum=
ents to
facilitate the transfer of this fund to a foreign account whose owner will=
be
portrayed as the bonafide beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased cust=
omer of
the bank.


The foreign account owner will be fronted legally as the next of kin to th=
e deceased
and a true next of kin who wishes to speed up th e release a nd tran< BR>s=
fer of his inherited fund. If the over due fund is not claimed bythe end o=
f next
quarter, the government of south Africa will take over the ownership of th=
e fund in line with
the Federal Edict Act of 1979. We do not want the government to take over =
the
ownership of this fund, that is why I contacted you for us to do the deal =
and work
together, so that we will portray you as the bonafide next of kin to the d=
eceased
whose name is Mr. Mohamed mohd.


Upon your acceptance to assist us in this transaction, we will jointly wor=
k to
effect the transfer within eight bank working days with your support.
Be rest assured that, this transaction carries no risk, as every step will=
be taken
to conclude it legally and professionally, Normally you will be
required to maintain absolute secrecy in all information as concerns this,=

throughout the duration of this transaction, because discussing it with a
third party might jeop ardize t he entire effort and trans
action.

I am looking forward to receiving your interesting response on this projec=
t as this
will greatly benefit both parties at the end.=20
Please contact me through my private email :(fred.khumalo@hotmail.com [mai=
lto:fred.khumalo@hotmail.com])
or my direct cell telephone number +27837517876.

REGARDS

MR FRED KHUMALO.
EMAIL:fred.khumalo@hotmail.com
PRIVATE TEL +27837517876.
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