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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.
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • rafuza2006@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "s.rafuza@terra.es" <s.rafuza@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 14:20:36 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: ASSISTANCE



ASSISTANCE


Good day,
I am Sisa Rafuza Investment Portfolio Manager Metropolitan Asset Managers South Africa. I contacted you in regards to a late client who has an undisclosed fixed deposit account balance with our Security Investment Corporation (clearing house) which is dormant. Being mandatory for our security clearing house to locate a next of kin or beneficiary to his investment, all effort to locate and contact his family or relatives proved unsuccessful.

Based on the above, I contact you with a proposal for you to act in this capacity as sole beneficiary to my late client's investment as banking and financial rules and regulations (Law) warrants the bank to withhold such unclaimed investment for a period of 5 years thereafter to be transfered into a suspence account of the financial institution (Bank) treasure if unclaimed.

In this regards, I seek your assistance in clearing the investment deposit and subsiquent transfer to you as the beneficiary. All legal procedures will be followed for clearance and transfer unto your possession for safe keep on receipt of your acceptance.

Feel free to contact me by email: rafuza2006@aim.com On receipt of your response/acceptance to this proposal, detailed information and necessary steps will be disclosed to you.

Regards,
Sisa Rafuza
Investment Portfolio Manager
Metropolitan Asset Managers
http://www.metam.co.za






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