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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)
  • "i got your address from " (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • +27723133691 (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.
  • fidsankzu1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: fidsankzu1@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 12:03:20 +0200
Subject: ASSIST FAMILY IN DIRE NEED

FROM:Mr Fidel Sankzuma
Telephone:+27-72-313-3691
Email:fidsankzu1@hotmail.com

Attn: Dear Sir/Madam,

This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial;as a matter of urgency, i am desparately looking for a foriegn partner whom i can trust to handle some investment or fund movement. I am MR. FIDEL SANKZUMA son of late MR.MENTU SANKZUMA,who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and sponsored assasins of the tyrant Robert Mugabe.
I got your address from the consultancy directory during my search for a reliable and honest person to transact this business with.I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party- president Robert Mugabe.
Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe,the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irrate party members to disposess the land being occupied by white farmers. This action has led to the killing of some members of opposition party...The MDC including my father(MENTU SANKZUMA),who did do not support this ill-fated action.
But before the death of my father, he anticipated some dangers and so he deposited the sum of US$15.4m (Fifteen million four hundered Thousand United States Dollars)in the name of his only son 'FIDEL' which is me at a reputable security company in South Africa with the intention of using it to open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our neighbouring country (Swaziland ).
On the 29th of July, 2001, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF)ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him(my father) to death. Since then, they have been terrorizing me the only son, FIDEL SANKZUMA,but i managed to escape to a neighbouring country, South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee).
I am right now in the Republic of South Africa as a refugees because of the social political and economic crises in my country (Zimbabwe) which detoriates everyday by day especially AFTER THIS RECENT VISIT OF THE U.S PRESIDENT G.W.BUSH TO AFRICA AND CONDERMED THE MUGABE'S REGIME. Also, there is massive arrest and five years detainsion of all the protestants and the MDC supporters as ordered by President Robert Mugabe.
Conseqently,my status/position here in South Africa does not permit me to open an account or run any huge financial business. That is why I want this fund to be transferred out of Africa (BEFORE IT IS FROOZEN BY THE ROARING LION of the tyrant Robert Mugabe's regime) into your private/company account so that you will assist me to invest it in your country.
Hence,if you agree to assist me, i will offer you 20% of the money for your assistance, 10% will be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 70% will be for my family investment(s) in your country through your assistance.

I need your urgent and confidential response.
Best regards,
FIDEL SANKZUMA MR.
( FOR THE FAMILY)

NOTE:You can as well read more about the crises in my country and about this situation on the following
THREE sites:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html
www.dailynews.zimbabwe.com
Whenever you call the DIRECT NUMBER ABOVE, YOU WOULD GET ME FIDEL "ONLY" ON THE LINE. SO WHEN EVER YOU CALL, FEEL FREE TO AIR YOUR VIEWS..OK.
Waiting for your prompt and positive response
Thanks.
Mr Fidel Sankzuma

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