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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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • grace_tutu_1@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "grace tutu" <grace_tutu_1@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: gracetutu0000@yahoo.co.in
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:00:30 +0100
Subject: PLEASE ASSIST ME

FROM.MRS GRACE TUTU
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA
E-mail address: grace_tutu_1@hotmail.co.uk 

ATTN: THE DIRECTOR / C.E.O
 
                            URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED
 
GREETINGS FROM ME TO YOU.I KNOW YOU DON'T KNOW ME PERSONALLY. BUT PLEASE CAN YOU BE OF ASSITANCES TO ME?
MY ATTORNEY ADVICED ME TO WRITE AND SEE IF YOU CAN HELP ME.MY NAME IS GRACE TUTU I AM FROM ZIMBABWE, MY HUSBAND WAS KILLED DURING THE RECENT LAND DISPUTES BY THE AGENTS OF PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE.
 
MY HUSBAND WAS AMONG THE FARMERS THAT WERE KILLED, BUT BEFORE HE WAS KILLED, HE WENT TO JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA AND DEPOSITED THE SUM OF $15.5 MILLION
DOLLARS (FIFTEEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) IN A SECURITY COMPANY. NOW I AM IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH MY FAMILY.
 
PLEASE I WILL STOP HERE, THERE IS NO NEED FOR TOO MANY STORIES, I PROMISE YOU IF YOU CAN HELP ME AND TWO SONS TO MOVE THIS MONEY TO YOUR COUNTRY I WILL BE GREATFULL.YOUR PERCENTAGE WILL BE MAPPED OUT FOR YOU.REMEMBER IS 1OO% RISK FREE.
 
YOUR NUMBERS NEEDED FOR EASY COMUNICATION
WAITING FOR YOUR REPLY.
 
GOD BLESS.
 
YOURS FAITH FULLY,
MRS GRACE TUTU

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