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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 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.
  • +27733153433 (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.
  • shinaonline@unionplus.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SHINA YOK" <shinayok0021@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: shinaonline@unionplus.net
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:53:00 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS INVESTMENTS

FROM:MR. SHINA YOK
TEL :+27-73-3153-433
E-MAIL ADDRESS: shinaonline@unionplus.net
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.

HUMBLE ASSISTANCE
ATTN:Friend,

I do foresee the surprise this letter will bring to you as a stranger,but
please consider this letter as a request from a family in dare need of
assistance .I am Shina Yok the only son of late MR JOHNSON YOK of Zimbabwe
,presently residing in Johannesburg ,South Africa.

I got your contact from the South African Information Exchange Network
Online Services ,and I on behalf of my widowed mother MRS MONICA YOK decided
to solicit for your assistance to transfer the sum of US$16.5 MILLION
DOLLARS( SIXTEEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS)
inherited from my late father into your account.

My father was killed during the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe from
the support of our present President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white
owned farms to his party members and his followers He ordered all white
farmers to surrender all their farms to his party members and followers.
My father is one of best farmers in our country although he is a black man
but he didn't support Mugabe's ideas ; Mugabe's supporters invaded my
father's farm and burnt everything in the farm ,killed my father and made
away with a lots of items in my father's farm.Before my father's death, he
had deposited with one of the security and finance company here in
Johannesburg, South Africa the sum of US$16.5 MILLION ( SIXTEEN MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ).After the death of my father we
decided to move to the Republic of South Africa where he had deposited the
money in the security company as valuables .

So we decided to solicit for your assistance to move this money out of South
Africa ,because as asylum seekers we are not allowed to operate any bank
account nor have any financial obligation within South Africa; we have
agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for your assistance ,5% will be
mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of this
transaction ,and 75% will be for me and my family to invest in your country.

From the above you will understand that the lives and future of my family
depend on this money ,as such I will be very happy if you can assist us ,and
all I want you to do is to furnish me with your entire telephone and fax
numbers for easy communication.

Please send your regards and reply through this present
tel:+27-73-3153-433,,e-mail: [shinaonline@unionplus.net].

Thanks and Remain blessed.

BEST REGARDS,
SHINA YOK,
(for the family.)

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