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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +27732483320 (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.
  • markmatumbar006@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mark matumbar" <markmatumbar006@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:30:27 +0200
Subject: Check And Mail Back To Me Urgently.

>From Mark Matumbar
E-MAIL: markmatumbar006@hotmail.com
Tel: +27-73-248-3320

Please Treat This Mail Urgently.

Greetings Sir/ Madam,

Please, I will like you to take your time to go through this mail carefully
and with patience. I am contacting you in view of the fact that we will be
of great assistance to each other likewise developing a cordial business
relationship, as I am interested in investing in your country.

I am Mr. Mark Matumbar the first son of Late Mr.jarrad Matumbar of
Swaziland in Africa. My father was the managing director of jarrad Aluminum
Company in Swaziland but very unfortunate he died in the year 2004 after a
protracted illness. I realized that I will be unable to manage the company
and soonest it may fold up. I also realized that I am too young to manage a
large company of that
magnitude and most of the directors have already began to divert the net
profit being generated from the company.



I therefore arranged with my father's lawyer and sold the entire company to
Mr. Alan Foster from Poland at the price of US$19,000,000 (Nineteen million
dollars). Due to constant pressure from some of my relatives and also fear
of likely attack on my family to hijack the fund, I arranged with my mother
to transfer the fund into a security company in South Africa

where I am currently staying with my mother and other two younger sisters.
At the moment, we want to transfer the fund into your Account in your
country for investment. I therefore need your assistance to enable me
transfer the fund into your private/company's account over there so that we
can re-locate to plan for the investment of the fund through your personal
assistance and advise.



I mostly need your assistance in investing the fund because I have little
experience of investment strategies. If you can assist us in this
transaction, I will give you 10% of the total fund while 90%
will remain in your account for 1 year to enable me complete my education.
Please, if you can assist us, kindly call me on my private telephone number
to notify your seriousness
+27-73-248-3320,also send me an urgent email to indicate your interest.
Through this e-mail address (markmatumbar006@hotmail.com)

I await your soonest response
Best regards
Mark Matumbar

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