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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "million 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 next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +27723048297 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Vincent Kubu <vinkubu@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:15:11 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Foreign partner needed urgently.


RE: TRANSFER OF ($26,000.000.00 USD}
Twenty six millon dollars

Dear Sir/Madam (CONFIDENTIAL)

I am Mr.Vincent Kubu,from one of standared bank .We want to transfer to overseas account ($26,000.000.00 USD) Twenty Six million United States Dollars) from a standared Bank here in South Africa,I want to ask you, If you are not capable to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either anexisting bank

account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately toreceive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.

I work with the Auditing Department of one of the standared bank here in South Africa, during the course of our uditing,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1999 and since 2003 nobody has operated on this account again,after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money
out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is DOUGLAS G.ROSSMAN a foreigner, a great industrialist and he died since 2001.No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that until his death he was the director of PINE GOLD [pty]. SA.

We will start the first transfer with Six million [$6,000.000] upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest amount to your account. The total amount involve is Twenty Six million United States Dollars only [$26,000.000.00].

I want to first transfer $6,000.000.00 [Six million United States Dollar] from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest. But I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, without valid nternational foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign
a/c because the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the a/c is
aforeigner too, and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.

I want us to meet face to face to build confidence and to sign a binding agreement that will bind us together immediately after the first transfer before we fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and investments.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I need your strong assurance that you will
never, never let me down.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring.

I look forward to your earliest reply through my telephone numbers or
email address for more information.Telephone:+27-72 30 48 297.

Thanks and God bless!

Yours truly,

Vincent Kubu.




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