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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:
  • "might come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +31619785084 (Netherlands, 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.
  • robertmube@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: anita@hoekens8.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:36:01 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Assistance/Partnership





Assistance/Partnership



From: Robert Mube (Dr)
Tel; +31-619-785-084
Fax; +31-847-200-671
Email; robertmube@aim.com


Dear Sir,

This letter might come to you as a surprise however,
there is no need to worry, as we are using the only secured
and confidential medium available to seek for foreign assistance/partnership
in a business transaction. What is more important is that, the mentioned
transaction will prove to be of mutual benefit to both parties involved.
I am presently in the Netherlands on an official assignment, reachable
on the above telephone and fax number.

I am Dr. Robert Mube, a native of Cape Town in
South Africa and I am an Executive Accountant with the
South Africa Department of Mining & Natural Resources.
Be informed that a member of the South Africa Export
Promotion Council (SEPC) who was at the Government
delegation to your country during a trade exhibition gave
your enviable credentials/particulars to me.

I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation
with you in the execution of the deal described
hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope
you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature
of this transaction.Within the Department of Mining &
Natural Resources where I work as an Executive
Accountant and with the cooperation of four other top
officials, we have in our possession an
overdue payment bills totaling Eighteen Million, Five
Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars (US$18,500,000.00)
which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance
and cooperation of a foreign company/individual
to receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable
foreign non-company account to receive such funds.
More so, we are handicapped in the circumstances,
as the South Africa Civil Service Code of Conduct does
not allow us to operate offshore account hence your
importance in the whole transaction.

This amount (US$18.5m) represents the balance of the
total contract value executed on behalf of my
Department by a foreign contracting firm, which
we the officials over-invoiced deliberately.
Though the actual contract cost have been paid to the
original contractor, leaving the balance in the
tune of the said amount which we have in principles
gotten approval to remit by Telegraphic Transfer (T.T)
to any foreign bank account you will provide
by filing in an application through the Justice
Ministry here in South Africa for the transfer of
rights and privileges of the former contractor to you.
I have the authority of my partners involved to
propose that should you be willing to assist us in
this transaction by way of providing the required
account in receiving these funds, your share of the
entire sum will be 30% amounting to Us$5.55Million of
the US$18.5Million, 60% amounting to US$11.1Million
for us and 10% amounting to US$1.85Million will be
used to settle taxation and other miscellaneous
expenses in the course of transferring the funds to
your account.

The Transaction itself is 100% safe, on your part
provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and
confidentiality. Also your area of specialization is
not a hindrance to the successful execution of this
transaction.I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you
will not disappoint me.

Endeavor to contact me immediately through my secured email address
robertmube@aim.com whether or not you are interested in
this deal.If you are not, it will enable me contact another
Foreign partner with similar recommendation to carry
out this deal. I want to assure you that myself and my
partners are in a position to make the payme

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