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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:
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +27835209754 (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.
  • drngu_associates@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "JAMES KALA" <jamkal3@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:14:28 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSALS

Engr.James Kala.
ABSA BANK SOUTH AFRICA
Foreign Accounts Services.
South Africa.
+27 83 520 9754
Alternative email for our agent
(drngu_associates@yahoo.com)



Attn:SIR/MADAM.


PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.

I am contacting you on a business transfer of a huge sum of money from a
deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will
make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will
be well at the end of the day. We decided to contact you due to the urgency
of this transaction.

PROPOSITION:

We discovered an abandoned sum of huge amount (POUNDS)in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire
family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come
forward to lay claims for this money as the heir. We cannot release the
funds from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery,
we now seek your permission to have you stand as a next-of-kin to the
deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by us for the
funds
(US$7,500,000.00) to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's
next-of-kin. It may interest you
to know that we have secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate
any of deceased
beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business endeavour by
furnishing me with the following:

1. Name and address (to be used as the Beneficiary)
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers (to contact you)
3.Copy of your international passport

These requirements will enable us file a letter of claim to the appropriate
departments for necessary
approvals in your favour before the transfer can be made. We shall be
compensating you with ONE MILLION POUNDS on final conclusion of this
project, while THE REST shall be for us. Your share stays with you while
the rest shall be for us for investment purposes.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the
trust we have
bestowed on you.

I await your urgent response.


Regards,

Engr.James Kala.

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