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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:
  • "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)
  • "to your nominated bank account" (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 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.
  • +27735824574 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "JONO SONO" <jonosono14@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:33:37 +0200
Subject: RE:{Spam?} RE:{Spam?} RE:{Spam?} FUND MANAGEMENT.

Dear: Altmann Klien,

I received your mail with thanks. As I stated in my previous mail that I
want you to stand in as the beneficiary of the consignment of which I
received your order to do so. I whish to thank you for your
understanding/co-operation.

This consignment will be sold and the profit transferred to your nominated
bank account in your country for investment.

I made a contact with a bank manager who promise to assist us transfer the
fund to any overseas account without any problem.

According to the bank manager, he will get the consignment deposited in the
bank's suspence account and from this account he will raise a bank draft in
your name and a copy of the draft will be send to you for your confirmation.

You will thereafter be required to open a non-resident bank account in your
name with his bank where this draft will be deposited to clear before onward
transfer of the fund to your designated bank account in your country through
telegraphic bank transfer.

I urge you to follow my instructions for a successfull transaction as we
look forward to a better investment in your country.

Due to my position in my company I will like to step aside as you deal with
the bank manager who I will introduce to you later.

As long as you give me your full support/co-operation I will leave no stone
unturned in making sure that the fund get to your account as soon as
possible. As soon as the fund is right in your overseas bank account I will
immediately vacate my position to meet with you over there for investment of
which you will be my eye opner.

I hereby furnish you once again with my telephone number, it is very
important you call me as soon as you receive this mail for oral
communication/more details. +27-73-5824574. Furnish me with the below
details to enable do the change of beneficairy.

1. Your full names
2. Your company name
3. Your position in the company
4. Your private telephone and fax numbers
5. A copy of your international passport or identity document


Below is my office address and my home address.

My office address is

De Beer Group SA
14 Pine Street
Southdale
Johannesburg
South Africa

My Home address is:

34 Catherine Street Sandton South Africa. I look forward to hear from you
for next step.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Jono Sono.









>Thank you for your very good response.
>
>Just recently I for some weird reason commenced to have these nightmares
>about foreign cash notes and colorful gems tumbling over my bed. And then I
>by pure chance won a pleasant Vespa bike in a prize draw. And next I
>received your letter. Is it not strange? I trust that I have not told you
>about this previously and am not boring you yet again but I just found it
>so unusual.
>
>Please understand that I will not let you down. I had already said in my
>previous email that we will push on with this lovely offer. All I wish for
>is for you to provide some exact proof of how it will work.
>
>Also I have been contemplating: what about a possible leak about my new
>funds? This makes me distressed.
>
>I urgently expect your reply.
>
>good wishes,
>
>Hr Klien
>
>By the way I endeavored to call the phone number you wrote but it kept
>failing. Sorry.
>
>Save the world. Get the girl. Pass math.
>http://www.ppmusic.com/music/comp18.htm

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