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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:
  • "of which your share shall be" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
• 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.
  • mmoyo@inmail24.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mmoyo@unionplus.net
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:34:38 +0200
Subject: Opportuned Contract

Good Day,

I want to apologize if this will interrupt your privacy. I need somebody we can rely on and trust with the confidence of our intention. I write to inform you of our desire to acquire estates, shares or landed properties in your country on behalf of other members of my Committee.
Considering our very strategic and influential position, we would want the transaction to be strictly as confidential as possible. The identity of the others involved will remain undisclosed at least for now, until the completion of the transaction.
South Africa's present Financial Policy does not favor us having large sums of money in our possession for now. Hence our desire to have an oversea agent. I have therefore been directed to inquire if you would agree to act as our oversea agent in order to actualize this transaction.
The deal in brief is that the funds with which to carry out our proposed investments in your country is presently in an escrow account in the South Africa Reserve Bank and we need your assistance to transfer the funds to your Country or any safe account outside your country that is convenient For this you shall be considered to have executed a contract for the aforementioned Department of Minerals & Energy here in South Africa where we work. The contract sum of which runs into US$12.5Million (Twelve Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) of which your share shall be 30% if you agree to be our overseas agent.
Your area of specializations does not matter in this transaction; all that is required of you is a safe account and your willingness to assist us to acquire properties in your country. As soon as payment is effected and the amount mentioned above is successfully transferred into an account that you will nominate, we intend to come over for our remaining 60% share because 10% will be for expenses/Taxation during the process of the transfer. In our acquiring of properties, you shall serve as our agent. It might interest you to note that, you have to reassure us in every way you can that will be capable in this regard, as we have heard & know that there are a lot of scams out there and we have lost a lot too, as a result of seeking assistance from the wrong hands/partner. Last year, a similar transaction we made from Halliburton, USA to award a major DME contract at the Port Elizabeth Island, was carried out with one Fernandez Yu of Taiwan but after securing the payment approva!
ls, and payment effected, Fernandez Yu changed his numbers and addresses, and was no where to be found on our getting to Taiwan. That was how we lost US$7.5Million. So this time around, I will be with you before the remittance is made into your provided account to avoid future occurrence and allow trust to play a minimal role until conclusion.
You are requested to communicate your acceptance of this proposal via my email address: mmoyo@inmail24.com with your Telephone/Fax numbers and your address. We shall then discuss in details the modalities for seeing this transaction through. If however, you are indisposed to assist, kindly destroy this letter in view of the confidentiality of the proposed transaction and interest of personalities involved. But, if this transaction is successful, l can assure that my partner will do his utmost best to secure a contract with DME for you, if you so desire in the nearest future.
Finally, we wish to reassure you that the process is hitch/risk free and your utmost confidentiality should be our priority right now. I await your response.

Yours sincerely,
Mr. Michael Moyo.

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