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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "first national bank" (not involved with lotteries)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "transferred into your 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.
  • +27784145588 (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.
  • dennistutu@safe-mail.net
  • dennistutu@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: dennis tutuli <dennistutu4@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:14:11 +0200
Subject: please help



I know that this letter might come to you as a big surprise to you, but I will like you to understand that everybody in the world is just like brothers and sisters only that God has already made it to have difference language and countries in the world, and is only one day can person will know his or her companion for mutual relationship between them, I will like to expose my secret opportunity business of being rich between me and you, also your full assistant to make this business opportunity to come true.
I am Dennis Lutuli, a husband to recently deceased patrician lutuli that is a junior sister to Former wife of Nelson Mandela of South Africa, and my wife is a politician under South Africa Home affairs department in Johannesburg city as a whole. She died at the motor accident on her way traveling to Cape Town city for South Africa national Congress meeting, She died at Net care Hospital in Pretoria South Africa.

During her lifetime she deposited the sum of (USD25, 000.000.00) in the First National Bank of South Africa which is her money from the share resources of South Africa home affairs and she told me all about the money but the only problem I have now is my brothers in law they hate me from the beginning of my marriage to their sister because of we live together in good terms with love careering between us with two children one boy and one girl and now she has died living no will when she died at a spot in hospital, now my brothers in law that is my wife’s brothers and sisters are seeking for the money but they don’t know the real grand on how to get the money only that they are persecuting me to provide the money by treating my life and my children that is why I am earnestly seeking for your full help to assist me to transfer this money to your bank account in your country for the safety of the money to your country because I will travel with you to your country with my children immediately the money is transferred into your bank account in your country. I thank God that I found you as the person who will help me in this condition because my wife relations are planning to kill me because of the money if I make use of the money in my country here in South Africa they will get me arrested for investing the money near them that is why I want you to help me to transfer the money as you will be the next kin, I have gone to the First National Bank of South Africa were the money was deposited to make all the inquiries on how to transfer the money to any foreign account with documents that involved on it as the original beneficiary of the money once the money is transferred into your bank account number. For the trust you have on me to do this opportunity business of being rich I will give you 30% of the total sum, please I will like you to keep the top secret of the transaction till when the money get into your account for this is very secret and risk free between me and you. Please reply me with this my private email addresses for more details on how to transfer the money into your bank account number in your country.

Private email is dennistutu@Safe-mail.net or dennistutu@hotmail.com
Mobile: +27-784145588
Yours truly,
Mr. Dennis Lutuli,

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