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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • jpsephwamba@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: joseph wamba <josephwamba@web.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:22:08 +0200
Subject: Very Urgent.




FROM: MR.JOSEPH WAMBA
Tel :27-73-773-0162
EMAIL:josephwamba@worker.com
EMAIL;jpsephwamba@hotmail.com

Dear Sir/Madam

I got your contact address through South Africa Information Exchange (S.A.I .E, while searching for a safe and accommodative country to invest my fund. I resolved to contact you based on your company’s vast experience and excellence in business, which gave me confidence to invest in your company.

But before I proceed I will not forget to introduce my self to you, my name is MR.JOSEPH WAMBA the only son of LATE DR.PHILIP WAMBA, from Bulawayo-Zimbabwe.
My father was the Director of Agriculture and Industry in President Mugabe’s Government, who was murdered with other rich white farmers and some objective blacks farmers in cold blood by the agent of the ruling junta of President Robert Mugabe for his alleged support for the opposition party,

the (D.M.C.). Before my father’s death he took me to Johannesburg – South Africa, to deposit the sum of US$20 M (TWENTY MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) with a security company in South Africa, as if he knew the looming danger in Zimbabwe.For diplomatic reasons and to reduce the demurrage, my father deposited this money with the disguise that the actual content in the box was precious item valued at that amount, where by Security Company, in south Africa are non legally entitled to transact money. This money was meant for the purchase of machinery and agro-chemical for the establishment of new farm settlement in our rural area.

But he could not proceed with the purchase, why? Because the land problem arose again when President Robert Mugabe introduces a new land act, which wholly affects all the rich white farmers in Zimbabwe. As a result of this development and the sudden death of my father, my family and I moved to South Africa where we are seeking asylum. Due to the clauses in my asylum status that did not entitle me to do any banking transaction or invest such huge amount in South Africa.

Moreover, it is not my intention to invest in this country even if the situation demands me to do that, because South Africa and Zimbabwe have similar land problem. In respect to that, my good friend if you are willing to assist me in this issue, I worked out 30% of the total sum for your assistance rendered to me, 10% have set aside for whatever financial expenses encountered in the process of transferring this money outside South Africa, while the remaining 60% is for our investment purpose with you in your country.

I assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free, because every necessary arrangement has been made through the help of my lawyer and his bank friends for the successful transfer of this fund out of South Africa, after the money have successfully transferred to your overseas account, I will come over with my mother and my younger sister for the investment purpose and settling down in your country. If you consider this worth doing, kindly contact me with the above telephone or Email address for more detailed information.

Yours faithfully

MR.JOSEPH WAMBA

[For The Family]








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