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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:
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "i got your address from " (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
  • "robert mugabe" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +34677237046 (Spain, 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.
  • donaldjohnsonduke@hotmail.com
  • donaldjohnsonduke@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <donaldjohnson10@centrum.cz>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:05:36 +0100
Subject: notice please


FROM MRS REBECCA JOHNSON
# 20 Rivonia Road Sandton

Johannesburg, South Africa.

Email Address: donaldjohnsonduke@hotmail.com

=C2=A0

THE DIRECTOR/C.E.O,

=C2=A0

My name is Mrs. Rebecca Johnson the wife of Wilfred Johnson from Zimbabwe=
. This might be a surprise to you about where I got your contact address=
, I got your address from the South African Network Online {SAINO} when I=
was desperately looking for a trust-worthy person to assist my son who i=
s currently residing in EUROPE, and so I decided to contact you.

=C2=A0

During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporter=
s of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms land =
to his party members and his followers, he ordered all the white farmers =
to surrender their farms to his party members.

My husband was one of the best farmers in our country and because he did =
not support Mugabe=E2=80=99s ideas, Mugabe=E2=80=99s supports invaded my =
husband farm and burnt everything in the farm, killing my husband and mad=
e away with a lot of items in my husband farm.

=C2=A0

Before his death, my husband had deposited with one of the Security Compa=
ny in EUROPE/SPAIN, the sum of (US$25 Million Twenty Five Million United =
States Dollars). After the death of my husband, my son {Donald} decided t=
o move out of my country to EUROPE/SPAIN, where my husband had deposited =
the money with the Security Company as valuables.

=C2=A0

Please, I am contacting you=C2=A0 to assist my son to move this money out=
of SPAIN, because as asylum seeker, he is not allowed to operate any Ban=
k Account or assured of security or investment within in the country.

=C2=A0We have agreed to offer you 30% of the total sum for your assistanc=
e, while 70% will be for me and my family, which I believe that with your=
help we will invest it in your country.

=C2=A0

All I want you to do is to furnish me with your private phone and fax num=
bers for easy communication. You can contact my son on his private teleph=
one number {Donald} on:+34 677-237 -046,on a visit to europe or on his em=
ail address thus:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 donaldjohnsonduke@yahoo.com=C2=A0=C2=A0=
.

=C2=A0

Waiting for your urgent response.

=C2=A0

Best Regards.

MRS. REBECCA JOHNSON.

For the Family

=C2=A0

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