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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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 orphan scam.
• 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.
  • +27835084603 (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.
  • collinswilliamsfamily@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "collins williams" <collinswilliams36@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: collinswilliamsfamily@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:03:07 +0200
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED.

>From Mr.Collins Williams.
Private Email:collinswilliamsfamily@hotmail.com
Telephone:+27 83 508 4603

Dear Sir/Madam.

My name is Mr.Collins Williams the son of late Mr. Benjamin Williams of
Zimbabwe. This might be a surprise to you about how I got your contact
address. I got your contact address through Network on line in my search for
a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction
which involves a transfer of fund to a foreign account and I decided to
write you.

During the current war against the rich white farmers in Zimbabwe,From the
supports of our president Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned Farms
to his own party members and his followers, he ordered all the white Farmers
in Zimbabwe to surrender all their farms to his party members and his
followers.

My late father is one of the best farmers in our country, and because he did
not support Mugabe's idea, Mugabe's supporters invaded my father's farmland
and burnt everything in the farmland, killing my father and made away with
all the things in his farmland.

Before his death, my late father had deposited with one of the Security
Company in Johannesburg South Africa, the sum of $US25million (Twenty Five
Million United States dollars). then after the death of my father, my family
decided to move to South Africa where my father had deposited the money.

So I decided to contact an overseas partner that will assist me and my
family to move this money out of South Africa because as an asylum Seeker In
Johannesburg South Africa, I cannot operate any account. We have agreed to
offer you 20% of the total sum for your assistance, 10% has been mapped out
for expenses and 70% for my family.

So Please, if you think you can be of any assistance to me and my family,
Kindly furnish me with your private fax and mobile phone numbers for easy
and smooth Communication with each other and please I and my family will
like to know more about you and your family.

You can contact me directly on my private telephone number +27 83 508 4603
for further details and clearifications and kindly reply me through this
email address collinswilliamsfamily@hotmail.com
Thanks and God bless you.

Mr.Collins Williams.
(For the family)

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