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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand 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 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.
  • stellaphaso2000@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: STELLA PHASO <stellaphaso44@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <stellaphaso2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:42:29 +0200
Subject: Mrs.Stella Phaso ( URGENT)


From: Mrs.Stella Phaso. 18 Sunheight Ranburg EastJohannesburg South Africa.


Dear Friend,

This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial as a matter of urgent am desperately looking for a foreign partner whom I can trust to handle some investment or fund movement.

I am Mrs. Stella Phaso, wife of late Mr. Christopher Phaso, who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people. I am writing from south Africa. I got your address through 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 irate party members to dispossess the land being occupied by white farmers. This action has led to the killing of some members of opposition party including my husband (Christopher Phaso).

But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he deposited the sum of US$8.5m (Eight million Five hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in the name of our only son Stanley Phaso, with the help of reputable security company in south Africa with the intention of using it to open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our neighbouring country (Swaziland) after his university education.
On the 29th of June 2000, 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, Stanley Phaso, but we managed to escape to a neighbouring country, as a political asylum seeker (refugee). But our position 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 into your private account so that you will assist us to invest it in your country. Hence, if you agree to assist us, we will offer you 25% of the money for your assistance, 5% will be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 70% will be for our family investment in your country under your close supervision. I need your urgent and confidential response. Send me an email . EMAIL ; (stellaphaso2000@yahoo.com) or phone me on this line Tel ; + 27736679418.

Best regards
Stella phaso
(For the family)
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