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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:
  • "for your efforts, i am prepared to offer you " (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 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.
  • +27865128211 (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.
  • mrsedithmoyo@safe-mail.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mrsedith 13moyo" <mrsedith13moyo@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:04:08 +0000
Subject: Family Help.

Mrs. EDITH MOYO

FAX: +2786 512 8211

E-MAIL mrsedithmoyo@Safe-mail.net

ATTN: Pls’Help,

I cannot imagine the surprise this will bring to you as a surprise this proposal will come to you, but please be rest assured is with good faith and intentions from a family in dare need of your assistance to help us transfer the inheritance sum of US$15.5 million into your company’s account. I’m Mrs. EDITH MOYO from Zimbabwe (currently residing in South Africa), i am the wife of late CHIEF MICHEAL MOYO.

I got your contact details in the course of my discreet search for a reliable and God fearing person from the I(nternet Peoples Listing provided by the SAIS).
The list contains your name and email address, and you have been selected through a RANDOM Computer selection after your name came up several times from a pool of names PROFILED.
the Johannesburg Center and Exhibition board and after going through your profile, I decided to solicit for your kind assistance. I am currently residing with my son and my two daughters in Johannesburg South Africa as asylum seekers and the South African Fiscal Policy Law and Regulations does not allow us certain financial rights.

My late husband held a several and administrative post in government since 1983 to 2004 before his death. In 1983 he is the (ZANU-PF) youth leader to 1995 he became the party (ZANU-PF) chairman and in 1998 he was elected the federal Minister of land and mineral resources before he was murdered on the 15th Aug 2004. Because he was not in- support of PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE action to chasse the white farmer out of their land during the land war crises in Zimbabwe. After his death I discovered that in his WILL, he specifically drew my attention to the sum of US$15.5 million, which he had deposited, in a safe box of the Private Security Company here in Johannesburg. The lives and future of our family depends on this fund as such I will be grateful if you can assist us. In view of this, I cannot invest this fund in South Africa hence my asking you to assist me to transfer it out of South Africa for investment purposes in your country. For your efforts, I am prepared to offer you 25% of the total sum while 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the course of this transaction and the remaining 70% is for the family’s investment in your country.

Please note that this transaction is risk-free and the major thing I ask of you is to assure me the safety of the money when transferred to your account. Further information and arrangement will commence as soon as trust, confidence and good relationship is established. I shall be most grateful if you maintain the confidentiality required in this transaction.

Do not hesitate to fax me for further directives or send a mail to enable us commence towards the conclusion of this transaction. I wait for your prompt response

Thanks and yours sincerely,

EDITH MOYO

 

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