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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +27781415181 (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.
  • representative_africaagent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • representative@webmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Africa Agent <agent_africa@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:53:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Barr. David Mongerane & Associates. ( Esq.


Barr. David Mongerane & Associates. ( Esq.
Solicitors, Conveyancers & Notary Public
E-mail: representative_africaagent@yahoo.co.uk
E-mail: representative@webmail.co.za
Tele: + 27- 78 -1415 181
Fax + 27- 73 -2220 646
4Th Floor, Elephant House
107 Market Street Cnr Von Williegh Johannesburg
2001
Post Address P.O.Box 61618
Marshalltown
2107

Attn ,

Permit me to introduce myself as Barr. David Mogwerane.Esq,(Africa Agent ) a South African and legal practitioner based in Johannesburg.This is the reference of your mail Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 in regards of the lottery you won and as you have requested me to do the necessary thing to make sure that you receive your money.

It real and you must comply with the instruction of claiming your fund from the bank after they have contacted you. I will appreciate you furnish me with the details below which will enable me write a letter of claim To the bank before the bank will contact you for verification and transferring your fund.

1)Your full name telephone and fax number?s
2) Your physical address
3) Your banking information where the fund will be
transferred into either in your country or out side.
4) Your country. I.e. the account number, bank name, swift
code of the bank, address, telephone and fax! number of the
bank and the account name.
Immediately all this information are received, I will used the opportunity to write a letter of claim in your favour to the bank, furnishing the bank with all the requirement which you have forwarded to us, so that your fund will be transferred into your account immediately with out delay.

Finally, I will appreciate you contact me immediately with +27-78-1415-181 for more discussion.
Sincerely,

Barr. David Mongering. (Esq.)
(Africa Agent David Mogwerane & Associates (Esq).
Solicitors,Conveyancers & Notary Public



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