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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:
  • "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.
  • +27732509196 (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.
  • anderson_aol@safe-mail.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: james ander <jamesander05@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:09:39 +0200
Subject: URGENT CONFIDENTIAL/PERSONAL




Attn.
TELE NUMBER +27-732-509-196

Email address: anderson_aol@Safe-mail.net

Greetings,

My name is JAMES ANDERSON. I am from Johannesburg South Africa, and work at ABSA Bank of South Africa an senior AUDITOR on our Department. I got your address courtesy of your country's Trade Journal at the World Trade Center in Johannesburg in my search for a reliable foreign business partner.

I will explain why I need your partnership in the next lines but before that let me inform you of the nature of business I have planned to engage. In my department i have discovered a fund of US$12,85 Million in an account belonging to a foreign client who past away with his entire family in a ghastly plane crash in 1994. Since then we have been expecting to hear from his next of kin to come forward and claim this fund but until now no one has come forward. In my career this is the first time I encounter this and on my enquiries and perusal of our policy and the government's, I have discovered that this fund will have to be released to the Government Unpaid Bill account in further delay to have no one to claim the fund. Because of the fact that this account has been dormant for more that 6 years.

I planned to divert this fund for my own use by getting the help of a foreign partner like, whom we will help to claim the fund for transfer to his personal bank account in your country. Note that I am the one who do exchange of ownership to your name details in the bank here secretly,so that when applying for the fund to the foreign exchange department everything will go successfuly and they will handle your application successfuly to the final authorization. And the fund will transfer to your nominated bank account in your country.


After i have accomplished making you as the beneficiary of the fund, you will then give instructions to to the foreign exchange department to transfer the fund to foreign bank account/(s) in your country by Telegraphic Transfer (TT) which can be confirmed in your account within 72hours. For your assistance i have mutually agree by myself to give you 20% of the total sum, while 5% will be used for local and overseas expenses incurred during this transaction up till its successful completion. The remaining 75% will be shared amongst us for investment.

I would like to keep my share of this fund out of the country preferably in your country. So I hope you will be kind enough to assist me find a good profit making venture. Note that I have set all the modalities for smooth and safe transaction in South Africa and only need your participation to accomplish them. I have planned this transaction for a period of several months and now i have prepared and satisfied in all aspects that this transaction will be a successful one.

Should this meet your utmost consideration please respond urgently. I would like to request for your private / mobile telephone and private e-mail for easy communication.Due to the nature of this transaction and also my job status, I would like to request for absolute secret and confidentiality, even if you are not interested. Please let me know of your decision,if you are derighting to me or if you are desapointing me, so that I can furnish you the further moves and important information you should know and what you should do.

Best regards,


MR .JAMES ANDERSON.
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