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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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 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.
  • tutu_johnson_spain@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: TUTU JOHNSON <tutu_johnsonson@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: tutu_johnson_spain@yahoo.es
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:36:57 +0100
Subject: LETTER OF PARTNERSHIP


My Dear,
It is my honour to request your assistance on this
business proposition which if pursued to its
conclusion will be of immerses benefit to both of us,
this request may seem strange but I hope you will view
it with all seriousness in appreciation of your
esteemed contact received through a reliable source
and the choice of your country. I wish to introduce
myself to you as Mr. Tutu Johnson from Zimbabwe the
son of the former leader Richest Black Farmer (Chief
Ruben Johnson) and also close aid/friend to the
President of Movement for Democratic Change, (MDC) Mr.
Morgan Tsvangirai, my father was the only Black Farmer
leader that insist that White Farmers should remains
in Zimbabwe and help build Zimbabwe's future also
growth of the Economy, before our Dictator Leadership
President Robert Mugabe order to kill my father for
injustice.
Mr. Robert Mugabe believes with the influence of my
Father the MDC might overthrow him and he began to
seize our mansion Building and refroze our account
within his power and also there was a grand conspiracy
to systematically destroy all that is owned by my
father that is why I am seeking your immediate
assistance.
More so, my mother Mrs. Julie Johnson and I tried
and eventually succeeded in securing some of these
assets, which include a mansion and some physical
cash. This is to avoid the present government from
confiscating his whole property. We left Zimbabwe with
the total amount of Fifteen Million United States
Dollars only ($15M.), which we brought to Spain and
deposited same sealed with a security company as value
diplomatic documents belonging to our foreign
affiliate.
After the deposition of the money, we were left with
no other option than to run back to my mother homeland
of South Africa , after my mother was asked to leave
Spain , which made the national headlines in the news,
I came back to Spain in order to move this money out
immediately to avoid being confiscated. I got into
Spain through a good contact and applied for
refugee’s statues as asylum seeker, which is being
pending in foreign affairs department of the Spanish
government.
The problem now is that we are looking for a
trustworthy partner in a stable economy who can help
us move the money out of Spain . Due to the stringent
financial policy of the current president and the
Organization of Africa Unity, it is virtually
impossible for me to invest money in Zimbabwe or
anywhere in Africa continent. In that case, I want to
know if you can help me transfer the funds into your
account in your country or elsewhere since time is not
on my side. It is true that we have neither met nor
known each other before, but the information I gather
on your credibility makes me believe that with trust
and honestly, we will achieve a huge success in about
a month. I wish to also leave Spain to your country
immediately the fund goes into your account.
For your noble assistance and well assurance of
safeguarding, once the whole funds come under your
care, I will offer you fifteen percent of the total
sum, five percent will be set aside for any expenses
IF ANY that might be incurred by both parties during
the transaction, while the remaining eighty percent
will be used for investment. Also you will be entitled
to five percent payment from annual turnover in
whatever business undertaking you advice us to go
into. However, this arrangement will only hold for a
period of ten consecutive years. This business is
completely risk free because every arrangement has
been for a successful deal.
I expect your immediate response so that we can
conclude this transaction in the very shortest time, I
wish you also keep this business highly confidential
and because I do not want anything to happen to this
fund. Do contact me via this email:
tutu_johnson_spain@yahoo.es as soon as possible.
Thanks and God bless.
Yours faithfully,

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