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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:
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • +27739644255 (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.
  • kumalotemba@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "kumalo temba" <kumalotemba08@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:51:48 +0200
Subject: Urgent business proposal.

FROM:MR KUMALO TEMBA
manager in FNB, Bank .LtD,
112 claim and plane street
johnnessburg south africa.
Alternative Email:kumalotemba@yahoo.com
Phone:+2773-9644-255

Urgent business proposal.

Dearest friend,

I am Mr. Kumalo Temba, manager of bills/exchange at the foreign remittance
department of FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED (FNB), In my
department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$20,000,000.00 (Twenty
Million, United State Dollars ) in an account that belonged to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family, on November
2002, in a ghastly plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we
have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and claim his money because
we can not release it unless somebody applied for it as next of kin or
relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this money.

It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have decided
to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence my contacting
you. We want you to present yourself as the next of kin or relation of the
deceased, so that the funds can be remitted into your account.
Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the government account as
unclaimed bills. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that any
account abandoned or is dormant for a period of years, is deemed closed and
all money contained therein forfeited to the government treasury
account.Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be
transferred into the government account as an unclaimed fund on or before
December 2006.

The reason for requesting you to present yourself as next of kin, is
occasioned by, the fact that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner.
The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your
account, shall be 70% to my colleagues and I, for the role you will be
expected to play in this deal, we have agreed to give you 25% of the total
sum and 5% for the expenses we are going to encounter by the two parties at
the course of this transaction. Therefore, you are expected to reply
this letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate in this
business. After receiving your reply, you will be communicated to with the
exact steps to take.

I expect your urgent response to my confidential e-mail address
(kumalotemba@yahoo.com)to enable us to conclude this transaction urgently
without any hitch.
Please treat this business proposal as strictly confidential for security
reasons.

Personal Regards,
Mr. Kumalo Temba.

PLEASE IF YOU CAN HELP REPLY ME THROUGH THIS INFOMATION:

My good friend you have to also know that this is a very secured transaction
of a magnitude which must be confidentially treated,please make sure you
send me all your private data to enable me secure all the vital document for
the said fund to be transfered into your account without any delay.


1 A copy of your international passport,scan and send to my mail box for
more clerification.

2 A destination address of your origin country and bank address where you
want the said fund to be transfered to.
3 your private phone and fax numbers for confidential of this business.
4 your oversea account information and swift code to enable the said fund of
$20.million dollars come into your account directly.
5.your full name and your own country.

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