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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • +27834657626 (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.
  • cindyzuma4@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "cindy zuma" <cindyzuma6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: cindyzuma4@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:51:02 +0000
Subject: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT BUSINESS

FROM:Mrs Cindy Zuma
TELL:+27-83-465-7626
105 SANDTON AVENUE
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA.




HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT BUSINESS




I am Mrs.CINDY ZUMA, wife of late THEMBA ZUMA who was murdered by the
Zimbabwean veterans and irrate black people.Before the death of my husband
on the 29th of Oct 2003, he was a Properous Tobacco and Coffee farmer in
Zimbabwe and one of the major sponsor/ Financier of the opposition party -
Movement For Democratic Change(MDC)in Zimbabwe. He was also the former
president of Farmers Co-operative Trade Union in Zimbabwe.

I am writing you from Johanessburg,South Africa. I got your contact email
address through the South African International Information Exchange Centre
and decided to write you. I write to solicit for your special assistance to
a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by the dictator President
ROBERT MUGABE and his(ZANU-PF) ruling party.

I am probably of the convinction that you are aware of the present
situation in my country Zimbabwe sequel to the land and farm land crisis in
Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irrate
party members to disposes the land being occupied by whites and some rich
farmers who are opposed to his consistent stay in power and his radical and
unnecessary reforms targeted at his political opponents.

This action has led to the killing of some members of the opposition party
including my husband(THEMBA ZUMA),who did not support this ill-fated action.
But before the death of my husband and the consistent threats to his life,
he anticipated some dangers and so he smuggled out the sum of
US$25.m(TWENTY FIVE Million United States Dollars), to South Africa since it
is the nearest neighbouring country and deposited it in a security company
with the intention of using it for the purchase of New farm machinery and
chemicals for Agricultural purposes in South Africa as well as a purchase of
some hectares of land in swaziland.

On the 29th Oct, 2003, the war veterans and some supporters of
(ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him(my husband) to
death.
Since then, they have been terrorizing my only son, THEMBA (JR) but I
succeeded to work for his escape to a neighbouring country, South Africa as
a political asylum seeker (refugee). But his position in South Africa does
not permit him to open an account or normalise this fund for any meaningful
business transaction in south Africa since He does not have a south Africa
Identity Card. That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your
Norminated account so that you will assist him to invest it in your country.

Hence,if you agree to assist us, we have two options for you, we have agreed
to go into partnership with you and your family or in the alternatve, we
offer you 20%of the money for your assistance, 5% will be for the possible
expenses incurred in the process of this transaction,while 75%will be for
our family investment in your country,through your assistance.

I want you to understand that this fund is purely a family fund/ money and
not drug money, nor could it be classified as government fund or Money
Laundering affairs and it could be substanciated by relevant authorties by
our attorney.

It is Family fund but termed confidential because I do not want my son to be
traced to where he is presently. If you are interested in assisting us,
kindly contact my son or myself with this email cindyzuma4@yahoo.co.in
address,and the telephone number above.
Right now, I am presently in south Africa with THEMBA(JR) my son and the
whole of my family sequel to the tensed political situation and the fear for
our lives in Zimbabwe. I need your urgent and confidential response.

Thanks. Best regards

Mrs:CINDY ZUMA

(For the Family)

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