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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
  • "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.
  • +27835320198 (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.
  • kantefamily_120@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Vivian Kante" <viviankante37@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:33:00 +0000
Subject: FAMILY LETTER

FROM:MRS VIVIAN KANTE
TEL:+27-83 532 0198
Fax+27-112197031
Email: kantefamily_120@yahoo.com

FAMILY LETTER
Attn:C.E.O,

This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial; as a matter of
urgency, i am desparatel looking for a foriegn partner whom i can trust to
handle some investment or fund movement.
I am MRS VIVIAN KANTE wife of late MR.KANTE JOHN MARTINS, 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 husband(KUMA JOHN), who did do not support this ill-fated
action. But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and
so he deposited the sum of US$25 Million (Twenty Five Million United States
Dollars)in the name of our only son 'BOGANI' at a reputable security company
in South Africa with the intention of using to open fertilizer manufacturing
company among other companies in our neighbouring country (Swaziland )after
his university education.
On the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF)ruling party trooped
into our compound and axed him(my husband) to death. Since then, they have
been terrorizing my only son,
PHILIP KANTE but he managed to escape to a neighbouring country, South
Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee).I and my two daughters are
right now in the Republic of South Africa as Assylum 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, our status/position here in South Africa does not permit
us to open an account or run any huge financial business. That is why I want
this fund to be transferred out of Africa continent (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 us to invest it in your
country.

But before we continue in this transaction, we would have to sign an
AGREEMENT for our protection and rights. Also, i wish to inform you that I
am being assisted by an
international business law firm based here in South Africa and we are
looking forward to employing the services of another law firms in USA to
prove its transparency and legitimacy and avoid all any interception by the
internal, international and multi-national monetary bodies. Hence,if you
agree to assist us, we 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
our family
investment(s) in your country through your assistance.

Note: On your response and interest, you shall be introduced to the
international business law firm based here in Johannesburg South Africa and
a top South African Reserve Bank Director SARB who areassisting my family in
this transaction for any query/demand for due clearifications. Also, all the
related documents to this transaction including the certificates that cover
this money from both the security company, international and national
monetary laws and clearence documents from the South African Reserve Bank
(SARB) to prove the legality, existence ,transparency, drug free and Risk
Free of this transaction are in safe custody with the law firm.
You can as well read more about the crises in my country and about this
situation.Note: YOU HAVE NO RISK TO BEAR NOR QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

NOW AND AFTER THE REALISATION OF THE TRANSACTION BECAUSE IT IS ABSOLUTELY
SAFE AND SECURED.Whenever you call me
(TEL+27-834-734-222,/FAx+27-11-219-7043) the DIRECT NUMBER ABOVE, YOU WOULD
EITHER GET ME OR MY SON PHILIP ONLY" ON THE LINE. SO WHOEVER IS ON THE LINE
AT THE TIME OF YOUR CALL, FEEL FREE TO AIR YOUR VIEWS..OK.

GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
Thanks.
MRS VIVIAN KANTE

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