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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:
  • "from the desk of" (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)
  • "contract review panel" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • peter_malepe@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "robhj" <robhj@manx.net>
Reply-To: peter_malepe@myway.com
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:42:58 +0100
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE PLEASE !!!!!!

FROM THE DESK OF:
Dr. PETER MALEPE
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
CONTRACT REVIEW PANEL
SOUTH AFRICA MINING CORP.
PRETORIA.



REQUEST FOR PARTNERSHIP: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT!

My name is Dr.Peter Malepe, I head a Seven-man Tenders Board Committee in charge of
contracts Award, Vetting, Evaluating and payments. I am presently an accountant with
the South Africa Mining Corporation. Your name came highly remended hence I am
contacting you for an Urgent business proposal (please my apologies for reaching you
through this manner). The purpose of this letter to you is to simply ask your hand in
partnership towards the transfer of funds to the tune of US$41,500M
equivalent(Forty-One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), into a
foreign account that you will provide.

The funds are ready and with your unalloyed cooperation the source of the funds will
be made genuine and legitimate, then the transfer is a 100% hitch-free, timely and
totally legitimate too. Needless to say, you dont have to entertain any fear as I am
quite conversant with all laws governing money transfer or money laundering of any
sort.

We have designed this transaction in such a way that we shall be successful and its
proceed, we shall enjoy with absolute peace of mind even after the successful
completion of it all. If you follow my instruction accordingly and promptly, this
transaction will be completed in at the most 10-14 banking days from the receipt of
what I will require of you. At this time I can not devulge further information
regarding this proposal until there exists an understanding and trust between us for
security reasons. But after receiving this mail and have perused through it and you
are interested, please do respond back via

email: peter_malepe@myway.com

If this proposal meet your intrerest, we have decided to give you a
negotiable percentage from the entire sum, hoping that it will be
satisfactory. Please send along your response the following:

-Confidential/Private Tel and Fax number.
-Contact name and address.

Thank you for your much anticipated urgent response.

Respectfully,

Dr.Peter Malepe




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