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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • jordansnkomo@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: JORDAN NKOMO <jordan03nkomo@walla.com>
Reply-To: jordansnkomo@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:38:47 +0200
Subject: RE:HI,YOUR ASSISTANCE PLEASE


Jordan Nkomo

ATTN: Sir/Madam,
My name is Jordan Nkomo 19 years old, the only son of Mr. David Nkomo of Zimbabwe. This might be a surprise to you about where I got your contact address. I got your address from from my desperate search through internet . During the war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supports of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrender all their farms to his party members and his followers.
My father is one of the best farmers in our country, and the President to one of the Farmers associations in Zimbabwe. And because he did not support Mugabe's ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded my fathers farm and burnt everything in the farm including my fathers house, and killed my father and made away with a lot of items in my fathers farm. Before his death, my father had deposited with one of the Security Company in Europe the sum of US$18.5 Million Dollars (Eighteen million five hundred Thousand united state Dollars).
After the death of my father, I succeeded to move to a remote village where am presently hiding, he had deposited the money in the Security Company as family valuables. So I decided to contact overseas firm/individual and companies that will assist me to move this money out of Europe for further investment in your country and advise. I have plans of travelling to meet you up when you have claimed the box for me. I do not have access to telephone so I advise that you be on your mail daily until we conclude with the claiming of the box which will not last more than a week or two depending on our understanding.
I have agreed to offer you 30% of the total sum for your assistance. All I want you to do is to furnish me with your direct phone and fax numbers for easy communication. Any form of your identification, like drivers licence or photocopy of your international passport. Note that this transaction is legit and 100% Risk-free and it requires, absolutely confidentiality. Please reply to my alternative mailbox jordansnkomo@yahoo.com
I await your immediate response and as well thank you for your understanding and concern.
Best Regards,
Jordan Nkomo.

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