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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:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • samuel32mbuli@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: samuel mbuli <samuel32mbuli@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 23:34:18 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Request for an assistance for urgent transfer


FROM:MR.SAMUEL MBULI
15 LINE STREET SANTON
JOHANNESBRUG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
TELL: 27-73-465-1960
FAX:27-83-68-15360
samuel32mbuli@yahoo.com

ATTN:
My name is MR.SAMUEL MBULI,THE ELDER SON OF Mr Johnson MBULI. a citizen of Zimbabwe. This might be a surprise to you
where I got your address. So I got your address from
internet.
Please do not be worried.During the current war
against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supports of
our president MUGABE to claim all the white-owned
farmers to his party members and his followers. My
father is one of the best farmers in our country and
because he did not support Mugabe ,s Political
idealogy,
Mugabe invaded my father,s farmland in my country and
burnt everthing in the farm,killed my father and made
away with a lot of items in my father,s farms.Before
his death,my father had depositedwith one of the
security VAULT in JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA the sum
of US$ 9 (NINE million united state Dollars).with my name the money in the
security company as valuables So
I decided to contact overseas firm and companies that
will assist me to move this money out of southAfrica
because as asylum seekers we are not allowed to
operate any account within south Africa .
We have agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for
your assistance ,5% will be mapped out for expenses
that may be incurred in the course of this transaction
and 75% will be for me and my family to invest in your
country All I want you to do is to furnish me with
your entire personal phone and fax number for easy
communication.you can contact me on the above
telephone .Note that this transaction is 100% risk
free and absolutely confidential
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html



THANKS AND GOD BLESS

MR.SAMUEL MBULI.






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