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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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 orphan scam.
• 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.
  • paul_kular3@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: paul kular <paul_kular3@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:00:09 +0100 (BST)
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL


FROM MR PAUL KULAR.
paul_kular3@yahoo.co.uk

Attn:
My name is MR PAUL KULAR.the elder son of MR BEN KULAR. of Zimbabwe.
During the current war gainst the farmers in Zimbabwe from the support of
our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party
members and his followers,He odered all white farmers to surrender all thire
farms to his party members and his follower.

My father is one of the best farmers in my country and because he did not
support Mugabe's ideas,Mugabe's supporters invaded my father's farm and
burnt everything in the farm,killing my father and made away with a lot of
items in my father's farm.

Before his death,(my father) has deposited with one ofthe security company
in Johannesburg,South Africa the sum of US$10 MILLION UNITED STATES
DOLLARS).After the death of my father,we decided to move to the republic of
South Africa where he had deposited the money in a security company as
valuables.

So I decided to contact an oversea firm and companies that will assist me to
move this money out of South Africa because as an asylum seekers we are not
allowed to operate any bank account in South Africa. We have agreed to
offer you 25% of the total sum for your assistance, 5% will be mapped out
for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of this transaction, and
70% will be for me and my family to invest in your country.

All I want you to do is:
1 )To furnish me with your entire personal phone and fax numbers for easy
comunication,
2 )For you to come down here in South Africa to open a non resident/Dollar
account,with your name, For onward transfer.
Note that this transaction is 100%risk free and absolutely confidential For
more clarification INDICATE YOUR PHONE NUMBER OR FAX NUMBER FOR EASY
COMMINICATION.
Thanks and God bless you,
Regards,
MR PAUL KULAR.

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