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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)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
  • "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.
  • zulufinancierconsultant1@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "rose moyo" <rose_moyo9@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: martinsmoyo3@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 13:35:52 +0200
Subject: GOD bless you,pls reply urgent and confirm you stand.

Dear Heilewis Campbell,

Greeting in the MIGHTY name of GOD and thank you very much for your quick
mail in respond to my proposal to you.like you said,i would like you to know
that this transaction will bring us into a long lasting relationship if we
work with one mind and trust.However,i truly need your complete help and
co-operation to properly arrange and transfer this money to your oversea
account,where i intend to relocate and invest this money for the rest of my
life through your advice and good direction.

To be very open and honest with you,this money is the only legacy which my
late Husband left for me and my only son(may his soul rest in peace)And he
deposited this money in a security company here in Johannesburg south
africa,which upon our arrival from our country Zimbabwe to here in
Johannesburg south africa,We went to the security company with all the
documents that my late Husband used in depositing the consignment,and they
agreed and promised to release it to me anytime I want or wish to collect
it.Although they also informed me that the consignment has attracted some
monthly demurrages charges which i have to clear(payoff) before they will
release it to me base on the initial agreement they had with my late
Husband.

With this understanding,i decided to seek for your genue help and assistance
to bring this money out from the security company and transfer it to your
account in your country where i will be re-locating after the transfer of
the money to invest and reside permanently.Having gotten your contact i
would like you to understand that i will need you to kindly arrange IF
POSSIBLE and fly down HERE in JOHANNESBURG south africa just for a 3days
visit to enable us go with you to the security company and pay off the
accumulated demurrage and retrievement of the consignment been(the box of
the money)and transferring it to your oversea account.

Dear,your arrival in south africa will also enable us meet face to face and
build more trust on each other before transferring the huge money to you.As
you know that the life and future of my entire family depends on this money
so i dont want any mistake.I wish to once again assure you that if you give
us your full co-operation and total support,that this transaction will bring
us into a long lasting relationship and we shall both smile together at the
end.Pleasae remember that this transaction is free and fair cause everything
is 100% risk free,and we had agreed to offer you 20% percent of this money
as a reward of your assistance after the transfer is concluded.We shall also
make your hotel reservation in a very decent and secured hotel while we
shall go back with you to your country after the conclussion of the transfer
within the 3days you will spend here.

If you cannot afford to fly down here soon,then maybe you can contact my
financial advicer so that both of you can arrange on how to transfer the
fund bank to bank to your country account without any problem.He is the only
one that knows about this transaction and he is an old man so feel free to
contact him on the below information:

Name:Dr ismail Zulu
Email Address:zulufinancierconsultant1@yahoo.ca.
Phone:0027 83 769 469.

Kindly understand that the confidentiality of this transaction is very very
important to me cause i dont want much wareness to avoid losing my fund to
greedy peoply.Send me your contact phone and fax number and please reply me
immediately to confirm your stand.

Regard,
Mrs Rose Moyo and son.

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