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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Connie Tame" <tame_x@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:51:47 +0000
Subject: Business Request

FROM: MRS. CONNIE TAME,
10,JOUBERRT STREET
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA
TEL:- 27-76-464-9145

ATTN: CEO/DIRECTOR,

You might be surprise to receive this letter from me since you don't know me
personally. I am MRS. CONNIE TAME the wife of late MR. JABU TAME who was
murdered by the country-region war veterans and irate black people. I got
your contact e-mail address through chamber of commerce and industry. After
due consideration of your profile, hence I decided to write to you. I write
to solicit for your special assistance to my family shattered by a
tyrannical Government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party
President Robert Mugabe. The Government Secretly sponsored the war veterans
and some irate party members to disposed the land being occupied by the
white farmers. This action hassled to killing of some members of opposition
party including my husband who did not support this ill-fated action.
But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he
smuggled out the sum of US$15.5 Million dollars (Fifteen Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) to South Africa and deposited it in
a Security Company with the intention of using it for the purchase of farm
machinery and chemicals for agricultural purpose in South Africa and
establishment of a new farm in Swaziland. This money was deposited in a box
as a germ stone to avoid much demurrage in the Security Company. On the 29
august 2001 the war veterans and some spotters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party
trooped into our compound and axed my husband to death and my second son of
32yrs. Since then they have been terrorizing my son Anthony but he managed
to escape to neighboring country as a political asylum seeker (refugee). His
position in South Africa does not permit him to open an account or to
operate any business. That is why I want this fund to be transferred in your
account so that you will assist him to invest the money in your country. I
must let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free. If you accept to
assist us, all I want from you is to arrange and come down to Johannesburg
South Africa so that you can help him to open a non-resident bank account in
your name which will aid us in transferring the money into your nominating
account overseas.
I have two options for you, firstly, you can choose to have certain
percentage of the money for nominating your account in this transaction or
we can go into partnership with you for the proper profitable investment of
the money in your country whichever the option you want feel free to notify
with him. He will then furnish you with every detail you needed to know. We
have also mapped out 5% of the total sum for any expenses that might be
incurred during the time of this transaction. If you do not prefer a
partnership, we are willing to give you 25% of the money while remaining 70%
will remain for my family, if you are really capable and willing to assist
us please contact him immediately in South Africa with this e-mail that I
used to sent this mail to you or better still, call him through the
telephone number.
Finally please treat this matter as urgent as possible; I'm in dire need of
him to leave the country soonest.
Thanks for you're mutual co-operation.

Waiting unalloyed for your response.
Best Regards,
MRS. CONNIE TAME
(FOR THE FAMILY).

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