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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:
  • "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)
• 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.
  • +27837473558 (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.
  • tutufamily265@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "charles tutu" <charlestutu2533@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: familymail102@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:28:27 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL FAMILY BUSINESS ASSISTANCE / INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

From Mr. Charles Tutu
Florida Johannesburg, South Africa
Tel: +27-83-747-3558
Alternative email: [tutufamily265@yahoo.com)



PLS SAVE THE DYING SOUL OF MY FAMILY

Attention:


I am Mr Charles Tutu, a Zimbabwean and the son of Mr Williams Tutu, a
renowned Farmer in Bulawayo Town in Zimbabwe. I write on behalf of the
Tutu's family, to request if you are available and have the facility to
assist my family undertake some capital investment in your country.

it will be necessary to inform you that the {US$20.5M}Twenty million five
hundred thousand united states dollars)intended for pitalization of the
investments are presently in the custody of a private security company here
in Johannesburg, South Africa which we require to transfer out of South
Africa immediately for the said investment purposes.

You may have heard of the present crisis in Zimbabwe orchestrated by the
unprecedented Land use Act of the government of Robert Mugabe in which this
government has arbitrarily reclaimed and acquired all farm lands owned by
the white farmers in the country.

This has caused a historical displacement of the white folks who are known
to be the country's main farmers.The ensuing struggles and strife have
brought about the killing and imprisonment of thousands of these white farm
owners by the ruthless government forces designated to enforce this new
order

My father, in his good will, joined the international community in
condemning and speaking out against this uncivilized and bizarre policy of
Robert Mugabe s government. As a result of my father firm and upright
position on this matter, a group of assailants suspected to be government
sympathizers attached and killed my father in cold blood in February 2004

Seeing that the entire Tutu's family was in serious threat of extinction, we
immediately fled Zimbabwe to South Africa, where we have sojourned ever
since as refugee under the United Nations.

Prior however, to my father untimely death he had sensing the rising
hostilities, sold some of his farm lands including those of some of his
white farmer associates who had transferred ownership of their farm lands to
my father to forestall the government acquiring them. My father secretly
sent the proceeds {US$20.5m} Twenty million five hundred thousand United
States dollars from sales of the farm lands to South Africa. And deposited
same in a metal box with a private security company here in Johannesburg.

Having seen your contact information in my search for a reliable partner we
now contact you for immediate assistance in lifting the funds out of South
Africa for the said investments. It will interest you also to note that we
have all this while articulated the needful arrangements through which the
transfer will be affected. To come to terms with you regarding your reward
for helping us actualize this matter, we have agreed to offer you 25% of the
total money ,5% will be mapped out for the expenses we may incur during this
transaction then 70% will be for me and my family.

It is equally important to state here that considering the nature of this
matter, we will required that it is handled most discreetly.

Kindly contact me using the above particulars upon receipt of this letter
for execution details and other necessary discussion.

please do me a favour by contacting me with my family email
address:[tutufamily265@yahoo.com] or by my family given number above.

In anticipation of your trusted and genuine assistance I remain,

Yours sincerely

Mr:Charles Tutu
(for the family)

PLEASE YOU CAN READ ABOUT PROBLEMS IN ZIMBABWE FROM THE LINKS 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

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