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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million us 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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +27781709193 (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.
  • alexandermoyo@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ALEX MOYO" <alexmoyo@mobimail.mn>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:46:36 +0200
Subject: Proposition!


Dear Friend,



Kindly pardon the use a medium, as informal as this in reaching out to you.
There has been a re-newed onslaught on white farmers and their supporters in
Zimbabwe . Eleven white and Six black farmers in Zimbabwe face prosecution
for what the government termed "delaying the land seizure" of their
properties.

I am one of the black farmers whose land, properties and fund stands being
seized. A court ruled that the group's challenge to the law (redistributing
land to black members of the ruling ZPF party lead by President Robert
Mugabe) had been made too late, and that the farmers had breached orders to
vacate their farms. The Lands and Land Reform Minister Didymus Mutasa, has
insisted that no white or black farmer that supports the opposition party
would be allowed on the land by 31 December 2007.

It's now a race against time.
Trying to seek justice from the Judiciary is futile as Tyrant Mugabe and his
Cohorts control it. My father put a lot of money into this farm business and
literally every cent he generated, he put back into this farm; you know
we've got the citrus crop here in US dollars, the pack shed on its own is a
million US dollars, and it's a big project. It makes your heart bleed,"



I taught it wise to seek a reliable and trustworthy person that can provide
a safe and secure account to transfer some funds of up to $7m until further
notice. So far, I have managed to get the fund into South Africa where I now
reside. However, it is still not safe to relax in South Africa as one is
unsure of the would happen in the next few months; especially now that the
South African ruling party ANC is refusing to condemn the atrocious act of
the Mugabe government.



Please if you are in a position to help or have a little idea of the
situation in Zimbabwe , kindly assist me and you will never regret doing so.
Below are my contact details; you can either email or call me for more for
details.



NB: If you reply with my email and did not receive my response in two day,
please do call my telephone number for confirmation.



Kind regards,

Alexander H. Moyo.

Telephone: +27781709193.

Email: alexandermoyo@hotmail.com

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