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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 next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +27762433066 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Jabu Fisani Kunene." <jabufk6@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:34:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LUCRATIVE BUSINESS DEAL FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION.


From: Mr. Jabu Fisani Kunene
Johannesburg,South Africa.
Helpline +27-76-243 3066.

Dear VICTIMNAME [ ,

I hope this email will meet you in a good health.I am Mr.Jabu Fisani Kunene
, a Financial Management Consultant base here in Johannesburg. I am the Personal Financial adviser to late DR.H.F.ANSLINGER,a foreigner who has lived in Zimbabwe for the past Fifty(50) years and whom herein after shall be referred to as my client. He lost his life in the ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe(Southern Africa). Now that the Directors of the very Bank in South Africa where his Funds is deposited have asked me to present the
next of kin of my deceased client,I therefore seek your consent to present you as the beneficiary since you have the same last name (Surname) so that the proceed of the
account which is Thirty Million United States Dollars(US$30,000,000) can be transferred into your private or company's account in your country.

All legal documents partaining to the Funds/deposit shall be obtained in your favor and will be forwarded to the Bank. All I require is your honest assistance & cooperation
to enable us see this transaction through as I guarantee that, this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement. The source of his funds for your information, is through sales of farm tractors and equipments in South Africa and Zimbabwe, which he traded on.As you are aware, this money is clean, clear of criminal origin and of no lien.

For your role in the transaction ,you will compensated with 30% and you will be entitled to the investment of my own share of the fund in your country pending the time I will arrive to see the outcome of this investment. We will discuss further again on how the dividend to be generated from the my company in your country would be shared between you (the executive director) and me( the company owner/Chairman).
Thank you very much for your gracious time in anticipation of your email or telephone call.

Very truly yours

Mr.Jabu Fisani Kunene
CONSULTANT.

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