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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:
  • "account in your country or any safer place" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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 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.
  • +27732536702 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "stella ngubene" <stellangubene180@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: stella_ngubeni10@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:34:15 +0200
Subject: Stella

From: Mrs.Stella Ngubene
12 Oak Avenue Sandton
Johannesburg South Africa
Tel:27-83-5797962.


Good Day,

Please, kindly pardon me for any inconvenience this letter may cause you
because I know it may come to you as a surprise as we' have no previous
Correspondence.I got your contact as I was searching for helping hand in
your country, this is why I decided to appeal to you directly for assistance
because I,have no relations or friends in your country to help me. I am Mrs.
Stella Ngubene from Zimbabwe. I am a widow being that I lost my husband last
year. My husband was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting board until
his death .He was assassinated last January by the rebels following the
political uprising.

But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so
he deposited the sum of (US$11 Million United States Dollars) in the name of
our only son JOHN NGUBENE with the help of reputable security company in
south Africa with the intention of using it to open up fertilizer
manufacturing company among other companies in our neighboring country
(Swaziland)after his university education.On the 15th January 2005, the war
veterans and some supporters of(ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our
compound and assassinates him (my husband)to death. Since then, they have
been terrorizing my only son, JOHN NGUBENE, but he managed to escape to a
neighboring country, South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee).
But his position in South Africa does not permit him to open an account or
run any huge financial business.

I want you to do me a favor to receive these funds to a safe account in your
country or any safer place as the beneficiary. For your assistance, I have
two options for you. Firstly you can chooseto have 10% of the money for your
assistance, and helping my familyInvesting these funds or you can go into
partnership with me for the proper profitable investment of the money in
your country. Which ever option you want, please do notify me in your
reply.I have plans to do investment in your country, in real estate and
Industrial production. This is my reason for writing to you.

Please if you are willing to assist me and my only son Fortune, indicate
your interest in replying soonest.

Upon your immediate response, I will immediately arrange and send to you all
the information's that will empower your good self in finalizing the
transaction with the security company in South Africa. I will also send to
you the agreement that will protect both interests. And also further
information about your self is necessary for I can not play on this.

Thanks and God Bless.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Stella Ngubene

You can contact my son on this Number +27-73-253-6702 Waiting for your
prompt and positive response.

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