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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)
• 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.
  • +27834368749 (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.
  • sekuma2@accountant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Andrew Sekuma <andrew_sekuma@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <andrew_sekuma01@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:30:13 +0100
Subject: Good Day




CORDINATOR, DEBT RECOVERY AND RECONCILIATION UNIT OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT TO THE AUDITOR GENERAL AMALGAMATED BANKS OF SOUTH AFRICA (ABSA)14TH FLOOR EMBASSY BUILDING CNR SMITH ALIWAL STREET,P.O. BOX 1596 ALBERTON BRANCH DURBAN 4000, SOUTH AFRICA.
PHONE NOS:+27 834368749
E-mail : sekuma2@accountant.com
GREETINGS: MANAGER/CEO,
I am Dr. Andrew Sekuma,The Assistant to the Auditor General of Amalgameted Bank Of South Africa (ABSA). Your impressive and managerial records made me to solicit for your partnership in these regards. Hence, this business is for our mutual benefits, i am believing that no form of disappointment will be envisaged for us to be more successful in life.
After going through some old files in the records department, I discovered that there is an account opened in this bank in 1982 and since 1992, no body has operated on this account. The owner of this account is late Mr.Muller Edwards, a foreigner and a miner at the Anglo Gold Platinum Mining Company in Mafikeng, as a geologist by profession and he died since 1992. Up till now, no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that this company does not now anything about this account and the amount involved is USD$ 60 million(SIXTY Million United States Dollars ) I want to first transfer USD$30 Million (THIRTY Million United States Dollars) from the money into a safe foreign account abroad before the rest, but I’ve not gotten a trusted foreigner.
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can be approved to any foreign account because the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the account Mr. Edwards was a foreigner and because of the need to involve a foreign account, I need your full co-peration to make this work smoothly because the management is ready to approve this payment to whoever that has correct information to this account. Of which I will give to you later.
if you are able to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my instruction and advice for our mutual benefits because this opportunity will never come again in my life.I need your strong assurance, trust and reliability with my position now in the office, I can transfer this money to any reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. I will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money, leaving no trace of any.You can also come to discuss with me face-to-face then the remittance will be made in the presence of both of us. we will fly to your country at least two days ahead before money gets into your account.
I have the tendency to invest my own share of the money in your country in expectation to sound management and good capital returns according to your advice. Be assured that you stand no risk of any kind as the fund belongs to us now. Therefore, after the eventual stage of the transfer of this fund,I am offering you 20% of the total fund, 75% will be for me while 5% will be set aside for expenses that might be incurred during the course of this transaction. I strongly believe that associating with you to embark on this fund, and some other business ventures will derive a huge success thereafter. I will use my position to influence and to effect approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms from the ministries and foreign exchange department. I am counting on your sense of confidentiality, as it is my desire to keep this to yourself. Thanks in anticipation of your urgent response .Looking forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards,
Dr. Andrew Sekuma,
(Assistant Auditor)
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