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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "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.
  • clutusnkiysi@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "reply urgent" <replyurgent5@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:15:04 +0200
Subject: Contracts


FROM: MR CLETUS NKIYSI
Chairman of Tender Board
Committee on the award of
Contracts in Department of Works
And Housing here in GLEN VISTA BRANCH,
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA.
DIRECT LINE: 0027_784891126


KINDLY REPLY ME ON EMAIL; clutusnkiysi@gmail.com

ATTN: DIRECTOR/CEO



May I have the pleasure of introducing myself? I am MR CLETUS NKIYSI, a
senior staff and chairman of Tender Board Committee on the award of
contracts in Department of Works and Housing here in South Africa.

I got your contact E-mail address from an international directory on
lawyers and advisers on international business in my quest to find a
trustworthy person on whom I can rep ose confidence for colossal
international money transaction. My aim of sending this "business proposal"
to you is to solicit for your assistance and co-operation to transfer some
huge amount of money into your account overseas. Therefore, this
communication should be held in high confidence.

My colleague and I in the Department of Works and Land Affairs wish to
transfer into a safe and secured account overseas, the sum of THIRTY TWO
MILLION FIVE HUNDRED US$32.5M) which is over-invoiced amount from contracts
we awarded to foreign contractors who have been duly paid on completion of
their various contracts. This money right now is in a coded account in the
Reserve Bank of South Africa.

However, by virtue of our position as civil servants, we cannot acquire
these funds in our names or in the names of companies here in South Africa.
I was therefore asked by my colleagues on trust and sincerity to look for a
reliable international outfit partner abroad into whose account the sum
ofUS$32.5 Million will be transferred. We have agreed on the following
sharing ratio if you accept our proposal. 1. Seventy percent (70%) for us
and Thirty percent (30%) for you, the Account owner.

My choice of you for this transaction is basically hanged on your field and
profession, hence this business proposal. If you are interested in this
deal, I will require some information from you in order to affect the
transfer of the money. Please, be informed that we shall commence processing
of claims of payment once we receive your interest from you, and the funds
will get into your account within Five (5) working days by Telegraphic
Transfer (T.T). Note that this transaction is 100% risk free. Do acknowledge
the receipt of this letter above and forward your reply to this E-mail
address or you can call me on my private phone no.+ 27-788460727

Best Regards

MR CLETUS NKIYSI

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