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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:
  • "million us 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)
  • "hundred thousand u.s 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.
  • drkamba1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr Mandela kambara" <drkamba75@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: drkamba1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:58:51 +0000
Subject: urgent reply from you

SEND ME REPLY TO(drkamba1@yahoo.co.uk )



I am writing to solicit for your cooperation in a multi million dollars
international contract supply for the government of South Africa . I am Dr
Kambara Mandela Paul, South African based. But with links to the South
African National Treasury of government of South Africa. I was opportune to
bid for a contract with the name of a foreign company which was won and
approved for contract supply estimated amount of $10,000,000 million,(Ten
million US dollars) but due to my status and the limited nature of my
company in fulfilling the contract supplies, I am contacting you to stand in
as my foreign sub-contractor / partner to actualize the contract take up for
an $5,000,000 million initial mobilization fee of 10% entitlement which
would be released to you or your company to take up the contract supply of
Agricultural Fertilizers to to the South African National treasury and
Government to Distribute among farmers.

one of the criteria for awarding the contract to me is the agreement that
the contract will be over-invoiced to the tune of us$500,000{five hundred
thousand U.S dollars} Gratification fee, and this must be made available to
the government officials Of The National Treasury who facilitated the award
of this contract to me, however i have found a financier who has agreed to
make the amount available.

With the payment of the whole or part of the over-invoiced amount to the
National Treasury contract committee officials, they will approve the
initial mobilisation fee to us amounting to the sum of us$5,000,000. {Five
million u s dollars}

We are however instinctively trusting on your unalloyed support and
commitment to work with me on this project, also i am relying on your
goodwill and trustworthiness. be rest assured that we will not solicit nor
ask you for any upfront payment or any financial commitment on this project,
rather we shall ensure that our financier makes available to you the part or
the full initial us$500,000{five hundred thousand dollars},that will cause
the release of initial payment of the sum of mobilisation fee $5million to
us.I have decided you have 30% of every estimated amount balanced at end of
the contract supply while my company have the rest of the total sum $10m
total amount awarded.

You should treat this matter as confidentially.

Best Regards,
Dr Kambara Mandela Paul

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