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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "the consignment " (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)
  • "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 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.
  • +27837654054 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "jeff morris" <jeffmorris_20@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:45:22 +0000
Subject: RE: TRANSFER OF US$25.5M FOR INVESTMENT.

ATTN: Mr. PRESIDENT/CEO
FROM: MR. JEFF MORRIS
DIRECTOR, DELIVERY/OPERATIONS
PINACLE SECURITIES, SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL: +27-83 765 4054.




RE: TRANSFER OF US$25.5M FOR INVESTMENT.

I am Mr.JEFF MORRIS , the Director of Delivery/Operations Pinacle
Securities, South Africa. Our firm is a security company of high repute with
years of outstanding service to the people of Africa especially top
government officials and military leaders here in Africa.

I have resolved to contact you through this medium based on business
proposal that will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I have not discussed
this transaction with anybody because it is of top secret.

To be explicit and straight to the point. Some time early 1997, a reputable
client of ours deposited a
consignment in our company's vault for safe keeping. And since then our
client has failed to come forward to claim his consignment, which has
accumulated a considerable amount of money in demurrage.

Consequently, in our bide to contact this client to redeem the demurrage
which his consignment had accumulated we discovered that our client was the
former president of the Federal Republic of Zaire, who died of illness after
he was dethroned in the same year the consignment was entrusted into our
care. Since the death of our client President Mobutou Seseseko, none of his
benefactors has come forward to claim the consignment with us, which means
that non of his relatives or aids had any knowledge of this consignment.

Hence out of curiosity I decided to secretly open the two boxes that our
client deposited in our vault. And to my surprise I discovered that the two
boxes that were registered as treasure by our client actually contained a
considerable amount of money in United States Dollars amounting to about
US$25.5million US Dollar. Since this development I have been nursing
plans secretly.

I also found out from enquiries and the foreign media that our late client
siphoned a lot of money from his country while he was in office as head of
state. It is my conviction that the consignment in our vault was part of the
money that our client siphoned and now that he is dead there is no trace to
this money in our care. I am now soliciting your noble assistance to assist
me in transferring this money out of South Africa to your country for
immediate investment with
your assistance.

I have also decided that you will generously be entitled to 40% of the total
amount. Upon my receipt of your reply confirming your willingness to assist
me of this transaction, I will immediately arrange and transfer all the
rights of ownership of this consignment to your name to facilitate your easy
clearance and transfer of the complete funds to your country for onwards
investment. This transaction is 100% risk free. Please maintain absolute
confidentiality on this matter.

I await your most prompt response through my telephone

number and fax number as above written.

E-MAIL:


Yours faithfully.

MR.JEFF MORRIS .

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