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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 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.
  • +27731558665 (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.
  • b_nkhosi15@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Benny Nkhosi" <b_nkhosi15@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:15:34 +0200
Subject: PLEA FOR ASSISTANCE

MR.BENNY NKHOSI
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
EMAIL: b_nkhosi15@hotmail.com
TEL NO: +27 73 1558 665


PLEA FOR ASSISTANCE
Dear Sir/ Madam

It was after going through your business profile that I took the courage to
contact you in this discreet matter that demands for a trusted person that
won't let me and my family down at the end of the day. We are in exile in
South Africa, our country of origin is Zimbabwe but we are here for safety
since after the death of my late father who was murdered in cold blood
during the land dispute crisis in my country 2 years ago.

My aim is to seek for your help to claim our inheritance money amounting to
US$25,000,000.00(Twenty Five Million United States Dollars) in Security
Vault here in Johannesburg, I am contacting you in the consent of my family
that gave me the mandate as the eldest son of the family to seek for a
trusted foreign partner to assist us transfer the family inheritance fund to
his/her account in your country then we migrate to your country to settle
and invest.

We are compelled to solicit for your assistance because with our status as
refugees, we cannot transfer the money ourselves; the law prohibits us from
operating bank account or having such huge amount either in account or in
cash. Hence my letter, I want you to help us transfer the money to your
personal/company bank account and take 20% of the total sum for your
compensation for assisting us, also you will help us buy/lease a residential
house and as well invest the money for us in your organization or in any
other lucrative business venture in your country.

To indicate your interest, reply this letter through private email:
b_nkhosi15@hotmail.com or my private mobile no+ 27 73 1558 665

Thanks and God bless you.

Mr. Benny Nkhosi

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