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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 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.
  • +27835401190 (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.
  • smithnene33@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Micheal"<micheal_bala@myway.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:38:13 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: URGENT REPLY IS NEEDED



Dear WAYAN KARMANA ,Thanks very much for the information you forwarded to this office and after much verification i therefore write to inform you that you have been approved as the rightful winner of the lotto award of US$1,950,000.00 in cash. A certificate award will be sent to in a due course. For your claim you are expected to come down to south africa to open a non resident account were the fund will be deposited first before unward transfer to your choice account in your country Secondly, if you can not come the other alternative is for an attorney to open the account on your behalf and the bank form will be sent to you with the certificate and other documents that followsRight now this office is waiting for your response concerning your option to effect the transfer, like i told you , you have to contact an attorney so he can explain more to you but i promise you that all is real , so try and contact the attorney, here is his informations below. It is very
important that you contact an attorney because it is only an attorney who has power according to South African law to open a non resident account on our client belhaf in other wards as soon as contact him i will forward all your details to him for the opening of the account and he will send you bank form to be fill and send back to him. ATTORNEY INFORMATIONS SMITH NENE AND CO ASSOCIATES.A O Email smithnene33@yahoo.com PHONE NUM +27-835-401-190 All you need to tell him is that you want him to act on your behalf to open a non resident account and that he should tell you the procedure in doing so Please you better contact him on time because the earler the better for you Thanks MR MICHEAL BALA


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