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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:
  • "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)
  • "transaction is 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.
  
• 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.
  • +27730240669 (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.
  • majo_family2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "helen majo" <mrs_helenmajo1004@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:00:27 +0200
Subject: URGENT FAMILY MONEY TRANSFER ASSISTANC

From: Mrs. Helen Majo
Johannesburg
South Africa
private email address,
Email: majo_family2@yahoo.com
Tel:+ 27 73 024 0669

                          URGENT FAMILY MONEY TRANSFER ASSISTANCE

 Dear sir/madam

My name is Mrs. Helen Majo, the wife of MR. Jose Majo from Zimbabwe. But now residing in Johannesbourg,South Africa as a refegee with my family. This might be a surprise to you about where I got your contact address. Please I got your name and address through a commercial publication via Internet courtesy of S.A.I.E. during my desperate search for someone who could honestly and confidentially assist me by serving my trustee.

 

ALTHOUGH, IT IS NO LONGER NEWS,THE WORLD KNOWS THE WAY ALL THE BLACK AND WHITE FARMERS IN ZIMBABWE ARE BEING BRUTALLY MALTREATED AND KILLED BY OUR PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE. During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supports of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the black and white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all black and white farmer's to surrender all their farms to his party members and his followers.

 

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

 

 Before his death, He confided to me the sum of US$19,000 000 Million (Nineteen Million United States dollars, which he had deposited with one of the Security Companies in Johannesburg, South Africa as valuables. Since the death of my husband, I have spent quite a fortune looking for how I can make a breakthrough in order to transfer this money out of South Africa.

 

The problem at hand now is that as an asylum seeker I am only using assylum papers issued to me by the South African government.According to South African Law, asylums are not authorized to operate any form of banking and finance related issues of this magnitude. Also, I am not authorized to clear or make any withdrawals from the consignment in the security company because of my political status.

 

So I decided to contact overseas firms and companies that will assist me to move this fund out of South Africa for our mutual benefit. Your assistance is highly needed because the security company is ready to welcome anybody with the correct imformation and documents covering this fund which I will give you if you agree to assist me and my family.

 

 We have agreed to offer you 15% 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 80% will be for me and my family to invest in your country. Now, all I want you to do is to furnish me with your full addresses, your country of origin, your personal phone and fax numbers, for further details regarding this transaction.You can contact me on the above mail address an telephone numbers.

                                  

Note:- that this transaction is risk free and 100% guaranteed based on the fact that my late husband genuinely made this money out all on his own through farming. Finally, please do not hesitate to indicate your interest and your willining so that I will not make further contacts regarding this transfer.

 

Thanks and God bless.

 

With Lots Of Regards,

 

Mrs. Helen Majo
(For the family)

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