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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:

• 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.
  • +27710719320 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: milton gumbi <milt_gum1@msn.com>
Reply-To: <milt_milton72@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:33:46 +0000
Subject: MILTON








Greetings,

I am Mr.MILTON GUMBI a chief security officer in one of the biggest diamond mine in South Africa.{name withheld for security reasons).
My assistant and i are in search of some good and reliable buyers of diamonds from abroad.
Actually, we are usually in possession of big and quality diamonds that we get from some miners that try to steal from the mine.We do not want to trade locally any more as it increases the chances of our getting expossed.

Please contact at once for further negotiation if you are interested.I will prefer if you contact me through my mail for now just for my own safety.you can phone me on this number +27-71-071-9320 to reach me or my email address.If i am convinced that i can deal with you,be assured that we can do good business.

Please also regard as confidential.

BEST REGARDS
MILTON GUMBI

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