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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "FROM, Mrs. Brigenth Kabala." <mrskabala_b@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:51:54 +0200
Subject: Greetings to you.

FROM, Mrs. Brigenth Kabala.

Greetings to you.

With due respect, trust and humility, I write you this proposal, which I believe, would be of great interest to you. I found your contact while I was
doing a private research for a reliable and capable foreign partner that would assist my family and me. I am Mrs. Brigenth Kabala the wife of Mr. Kenneth Kabala (late) of Zimbabwe. During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from the
support of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country, all the white farmers were ordered to surrender their
farms to his party members and his followers. My husband who was one of the big farmers in our country and treasury of the farmer’s co-operation
did not support his idea and so the party members invaded my husband’s farms and burnt everything in the farm, killed my husband and made away
with a lot of items in my husband farm.

After the death of my husband, my Child and I decided to move out of Zimbabwe because of our lives were in danger with the money that my
husband kept in his hidden safe in my house. The amount contained in the safe in my house is US$10.5m(Ten million, Five Hundred Thousand US
Dollars) and we decided to code the money and move to the Republic of South Africa where we deposited the money in a Security Company as a
valuable item.

So I decided to make contact with an overseas firm whom will assist me to move this money out of South Africa, because we are asylum seekers
here in South Africa. So if you consider this proposal, we have agreed to give you 20% of the total sum for helping us to move this money out of
south Africa and 5% will be mapped out for expenses both of us may incur during this transaction and 75% will be for me and my family to invest
in your country. All I want is for you to furnish me your details for easy communication and more information.
I will give to you my family contact information as soon as I hear from you; do understand that this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely
confidential.

Thanks and God bless you.

Best Regard,

Mrs. Brigenth Kabala.
(For The Family)

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