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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.
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • james_zubym@ubbi.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: s_zubym2@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:20:10 +0200
Subject: FROM:MRS.SELINA ZUBYM.

FROM:MRS.SELINA ZUBYM.

Good Day
I NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE


DEAR INTENDING PARTNER,


This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial as a matter
of urgentcy,I am desparately looking for a foriegn partner whom i can
trust to handle some investment or fund movement.I am Mrs.SELINA
ZUBYM,wife of late Mr.PETER ZUBYM,who was murdered by the Zimbabwean
veterans and irrate blackpeople.I am writing from South Africa.I got your address from the
internet through the consultancy directory during my search for a reliable and honest person
to transact this business with.I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by
a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his(ZUBYM-PF)ruling
party-president Robert Mugabe.Because of land and farm land crisis in
Zimbabwe,the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some
irrate
party members to disposess the land being occupied by white
farmers.This action has led to the killing of some
members of opposition party including my husband(Mr.PETER ZUBYM).
But before the death of my husband,he anticipated some dangers and so
he deposited the sum of US$15.4m(Fifteen million four hundered Thousand
United States Dollars)in the name of our only son JAMES ZUBYM,with the
help of reputable security company in south Africa with the intention
of using it to open
fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our
neighbouring country(Swaziland)after his university education. On the
29th of
June 2000,the war veterans and some supporters of(ZUBYM-PF)ruling
party trooped into our compound and axed him(my husband)to death.Since
then,they have been terrorizing my only son,JAMES ZUBYM,but we managed
to escape to a neighbouring country,South Africa as a political asylum
seeker(refugee).But our position in South Africa does not permit us to
open an account or run any
huge financial business.That is why I want this fund to be transferred
into your private account so that
you will assist him to invest it in your country.Hence,if you agree to
assist us,we will offer you 20% of the money for your assistance,80%
will be for our family investment in your country through your
assistance.I need your
urgent and confidential response.Please you can contact my son JAMES
ZUBYM Email him at james_zubym@ubbi.com
Best regards,
Mrs.SELINA ZUBYM.
(For The Family).
Upon your immediate response,I will immediately arrange and send to you
all the informations that will empower your good self in finalizing the
transaction with the security company here in south Africa I will also
send to you the agreement that will protect both interest.And also
further information about yourself is
necessary for I can not play on this.Waiting for your prompt and
positive response.Please read about
problems in Zimbabwe from the link below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm
PLEASE CONTACT MY SON JAMES ZUBYM HE IS THE ONE IN CHARGE OF THE
MONEY

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