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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:
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • +27731669908 (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.
  • douglasmoyo777@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: douglas moyo <douglasmoyo777@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:01:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Cry For help


FROM: MR. DOUGLAS MOYO
Contact number +27-73-166-9908
Email douglasmoyo777@yahoo.com
ATTENTION : Sir/Madam
You may be surprised to receive this strange letter from me. I am Mr. DOUGLAS MOYO, the son of Mr.DOUGLAS KHUMALO of Zimbabwe.I got your address from an Internet website here in South Africa. After due consideration from your profile, I became aware and assured of your credibility to help me.
My father was among the rich black farmers in Zimbabwe who were murdered in cold blood by the agent of the ruling government of President Robert Mugabe, because my father was against the method adopted by the government on the new land reformed act , which wholly affected the white farmers in Zimbabwe. Before the inversion, my father took me to South Africa as if he foresaw the looming danger in Zimbabwe and deposited US$25Million (Twenty- Five Million American Dollars) with a security and financial company in South Africa.
This money was for buying farmlands in Lesotho, Swaziland and also machinery for the farm. Heads of government from western world especially Britain and USA have voiced their condemnation against Mugabe’s new land reformed act.It is against this background that my family has mandated me to seek for assistance to transfer this money to a foreign account for investment purposes. Presently I am residing in South Africa as an asylum seeker. However, I cannot invest this money here in South Africa because Zimbabwe and South Africa are close countries and have almost the same political history . And with the financial lawsM of South Africa, as an asylum seeker, I have no right to own or open a bank account in my name here in South Africa . From the above, you can understand that my entire life and families future depends on this money.

I shall be grateful if you can assist me transfer this money out of South Africa into your company/ Personal Account for investment purposes as my next of kins or my late Daddy’s business partner. Please note that this transaction is 100% risk free, and for your efforts , I am prepared to offer you 20% of the total sum. Also, I have decided to use 5% of this money to settle any expenses that may arise during the process of this transfer.

The balance, I intended to invest in a profitable venture in your country or any where you may advise . The major thing l expect from you is absolute assurance that this money will save when transferred to your account. If this proposal is accepted by you, please reply urgently and get in touch with me on the above telephone and email so that I will then furnish you with more details will appreciate it if you maintain the confidentiality of this matter because of the happenings in my country Zimbabwe.

Yours sincerely,
Mr Douglas Moyo.


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