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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:
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • nkelelejabulani@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "jabulaninkelele2" <jabulaninkelele2@terra.com.mx>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:27:52 -0600
Subject: Business Proposal ( Transfer of Us$18.5m)


From:Mr.Jabulani Nkelele
Temporarily Resident in the
Republic of South Africa.
Tel 00 27 73 070 9532.
Please reply to my alternative email: nkelelejabulani@yahoo.com
This is for your kind attention from the rest of my family:

My name is JABULANI NKELELE,the elder son of Mr. JOHN
NKELELE of Zimbabwe. This might be a surprise to you
about whereI got your contact address. I got your
address fromthe South African Chamber of Commerce in
Johannesburg,South Africa.

During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe
from the supports of our President Robert Mugabe to
claim all the white-owned farms to his party members
and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to
surrender all their farms to his party members and his
followers.

My father is one of the best farmers in our country
and because he did not support Mugabe's ideas,Mugabe's
supporters invaded my father's farm and burnt
everything in the farm, killing my father and made
away with a lot of items in my father's farm.

Beforehis death, my father had deposited with one of
the Security Company in Johannesburg, South Africa the
sum of US$18.5 Million (Eighteen Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars).with my name,and made
every documents with my name both the certificate of
depositry.

Then after the death of my father, we decided to move
to the Republic of South Africa where he had deposited
the money in the Security Company as valuables. So,I
decided to contact you to assist me to transfer this
money out of South Africa because as asylum seekers
we are not allowed to operate any bank account within
South Africa.

We have agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for
your assistance, 5% will be mapped out for any
expenses that may be incurred in the course of this
transaction and 75% will be for me and my family to
invest in your country.

All I want you to do is to furnish me with your full
personal phone and fax numbers for easy communication.
You can contact me on the above Telephone number.Note
that this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely
confidential.
Reply to my alternative email address: nkelelejabulani@yahoo.com
Thanks and God bless.
Best Regards.
JABULANI NKELELE. (FOR THE FAMILY}

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