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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)
• 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.
  • pndlovu810@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • peterndlovu2004@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?peter=20ndlovu?= <pndlovu810@yahoo.dk>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 13:35:41 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: PLEASE ASSIST URGENTLY


Jeg har en ny e-mail-adresse!Nu kan du e-maile mig på: pndlovu810@yahoo.dk

Dr. PETER NDLOVU

Adcorp Holding Ltd

Johannesborg - South Africa

Tel: +277 36914537

Fax: +271 15076541



Kindly accept my apology for contacting you via this medium since we have never met before. Nevertheless, I have every reason to believe that you are a highly respected and trustworthy personality.


I got your contact through your country's chamber of commerce. Although, I don't know you personally but I believe God has made this contact possible and also hope you will not disappoint me for trusting you.


I am Dr. PETER NDLOVU a Consultant by profession, I represent Mr. Shabir Shaik the financial adviser to the former deputy president of South Africa Mr. Paul Zuma. My client is interested in investment abroad. Presently he has Twenty Five Million United States Dollars{US$25,000.000} deposited with a security firm which he will wish to invest in your country in a profitable business investment. it is for this singular reason that we seek a foreign based representative for his/her assistance.


Should you be inclined to be involved in this project, I will appreciate a prompt response from you, so that I can provide you further details on how we can quickly realise this transaction.


Finally, if you are not interested in this proposal, I apologize on behalf of myself and my client for any inconvenience.PLEASE DO CONTACT ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS;peterndlovu2004@myway.com.


Yours faithfully,


Dr. PETER NDLOVU.




- peter ndlovu

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