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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "million 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)
  • "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.
  • +27735164490 (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.
  • rebeccazimbafamily@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "rebecca zimba" <rebecca_zimba028@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rebeccazimba@africamail.com
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:29:57 +0000
Subject: CRY FOR HELP.

FROM MRS. REBECCA ZIMBA.
JOHANNESBURG.
SOUTH AFRICA.
Email:rebeccazimbafamily@yahoo.com
TEL: +27-73-516-4490
ATTN: Sir/Madam,

You might be surprise to receive this letter from me since you don't know me
personally. I am MRS. REBECCA ZIMBA the wife of late MR DAVID ZIMBA who was
murdered by the Zimbabwe war veterans and irate black people. I got your
contact e-mail address through South African chamber of commerce and
industry. After due consideration of your profile, hence I decided to write
to you. I write to solicit for your special assistance to my family
shattered by a tyrannical Government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF)
ruling party. President Robert Mugabe.

Because of land and farmland crisis in Zimbabwe the Government secretly
sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to disposed the land
being occupied by the white farmers. This action hassled to killing of some
members of opposition party including my husband who did not support this
ill-fated action.

But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he
smuggled out the sum of USD$18,000.000.00 (EIGHTEEN MILLION UNITED STATES
DOLLARS) to South Africa and deposited it in a Security Company with the
intention of using it for the purchase of farm machinery and chemicals for
agricultural purpose in South Africa and establishment of a new farm in
Swaziland. This money was deposited in a box as a germ stone to avoid much
demurrage in the Security Company. On the 29 august 2001 the war veterans
and some spotters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and
axed my husband to death and my second son of 19yrs. Since then they have
been terrorizing my son (RICHARD) but he managed to escape to neighboring
country South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee).

His position in South Africa does not permit him to open an account or to
operate any business. That is why I want this fund to be transferred in your
Account so that you will assist my son RICHARD to invest the money in your
country. I must let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free. If you
accept to assist us, all I want from you is to arrange and come down to
Johannesburg South Africa so that you can help my son RICHARD to open a
non-resident bank account in your name which will aid us in transferring
the money into your nominating account overseas. I have two options for you,
firstly, you can choose to have certain percentage of the money for
nominating your account in this transaction or we can go into partnership
with you for the proper profitable investment of the money in your country
whichever the option you want feel free to notify with RICHARD. He will then
furnish you with every detail you needed to know. We have also mapped out 5%
of the total sum for any expenses that might be incurred during the time of
this transaction.

If you do not prefer a partnership, we are willing to give you 25% of the
money while remaining 70% will remain for my family, if you are really
capable and willing to assist us please contact my son Richard immediately
in South Africa with this telephone number +27-73-516-4490.

Finally, please treat this matter as urgent as Possible, because I want this
fund to be transferred in your bank account in your country as soon as
possible. Thanks for you're mutual co-operation.

Thank you for your understanding.

Yours Sincerely,

(MRS. REBECCA ZIMBA)

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