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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)
• 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.
  • +27782865151 (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.
  • mabuzafamily@mail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • mabuza_family@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • mabuza_family@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "audrey mabuza" <amabuza8@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:45:01 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT ASSISITANCE PLEASE !!!

FROM: MRS AUDREY MABUZA
HARARE ZIMBABWE.
TEL: + 27- 782-865-151
Email:mabuzafamily@mail.com
:mabuza_family@myway.com
:mabuza_family@yahoo.com

Good Day,
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL ASSISTANCE !!!


You might be surprised to receive this letter from me since you don’t know
me personally. I am Mrs. AUDREY MABUZA the wife of late Mr. WILLIEM MABUZA,
CHAIRMAN/MANAGING DIRECTOR WILLMABUZA GROUP OF COMPANIES, HARARE ZIMBABWE,
who was murdered by the Zimbabwean war veterans and irate black people. I am
writing this letter from Harare, Zimbabwe, 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 dispossess the
land being occupied by the white farmers. This action led 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 US$25.5 million dollars (Twenty
Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand United State 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 family valuables to avoid much
demurrage in the Security Company. On the 29 January 2003 the war veterans
and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and
axed my husband to death and my second son of 28yrs. Since then they have
been terrorizing my son VUYO but he managed to escape to neighbouring
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 him to invest the money in your country. 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 him to open a non-resident
bank account in your name which will aid us in transferring the money into
your nominated 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 him [VUYO]. He will then furnish you
with every detail you need 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 the remaining 70% will remain for my family, if you
are really capable and willing to assist us please contact him immediately
in South Africa with this telephone +27-782-865-151,

Finally please treat this matter as urgent as possible. Thanks for you’re
mutual co-operation. I’m expecting you’re soonest and urgent response.

Best Regards,

MRS AUDREY MABUZA.

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