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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:
  • "million united states 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)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +27732390739 (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.
  • lawazizi525@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "theresa azizi" <theresaazizi37@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:18:41 +0000
Subject: PLEAD FOR FAMILY ASSISTANCE

FROM MRS.THERESA AZIZI
NO 20 Mandela Drive Sandton City
Johannesburg ,
TEL:+27-73-239 0739


Dear,

My name is Mrs. Theresa Azizi the wife of Mr. Morgan Azizi 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 is
currently residing in south Africa, so I decided to contact you.

During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporters
of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms 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 farmer in our country and because he did not
support Mugabe’s ideas, Mugabe’s supports invaded my husband farm and burnt
everything in the farm, killing my husband and made away with a lot of items
in my husband farm.

Before his death, my husband had deposited with one of the Security Company
in Johannesburg, South Africa the sum of (US$24 M} Twenty Four Million
United States Dollars. After the death of my husband, my son{LAWRENCE}
decided to move out of my country to Republic of South Africa where my
husband had deposited the money with the Security Company as valuables.

Please why I am contacting you is to assist my son to move this money out of
South Africa because as asylum seekers he is not allowed to operate any Bank
Account orassured of security our investestment within in the country.
We have agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for your assistance, 5%
will be out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of this
transaction while 75% will be for me and my family which I believe that with
your help we will invest it in your country.

All I want you to do is to furnish me with your private phone and fax
numbers for easy communication. You can contact my son on his private
telephone number {LAWRENCE} on:+27-73-239 0739 or on his email address thus:
{lawazizi525@yahoo.co.in}
Waiting for your urgent response.

Best Regards.
MRS.THERESA AZIZI
For the Family

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