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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "trunk box" (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 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.
  • samueltsepo@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: penelope Buczak <buczak7lope@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <buczakmrs@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:17:48 +0000
Subject: Compliment of the new year



My Dear, Due
to my careful search for an honest,reliable,sincere and willing
partner,I am contacting you with faith and I ask if you can be trusted
not to break an agreement,I am contacting on behalf of my family,still
it took me time to make up my mind contacting you and to offer you this
proposal of ours of which we can't afford to loose,my whole life and
family hope depends on it.Please after reading my mail and you find it
worthy for you to assist us,contact my son 'Samuel Tespo Vusi through
this alternative email address (samueltsepo@hotmail.com)with utmost
confidential and considering the proposal,he will be communicating with
you more often than me due to my health condition and he will be
conveying your conversation with him to me. My
name is Penelope Buczak Vusi, the wife to Late Mr.James Vusi of blessed
memory from Zimbabwe, During the current crises against the farmers in
Zimbabwe from the supporters of President Robert Mugabe to claim all
the white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he
ordered all white farmers to surrender all farms to his party members
and his followers. My husband is One of the most successful multi
farmers in our country and because he did not support Mugabe`s ideas,
Mugabe's supporters invaded my husbands farm and burnt everything in
the farm, killing him and made away with lots of items in my husbands
farm and confiscating all his assets.I and my family escaping,we moved
to Chitungwiza a place near Harare and recently again Zimbabwean
government declared moves against non-citizens in which the police took
us down to the Caledonia farms and forced many of us to move to an
ancestral village before the catholics mission could come to rescue.for
the truth of it all check the caption of BBC with this page below: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4177222.stm Before
his death, my husband had deposited with FINANCE HOUSE IN SOUTH AFRICA,
the sum of (USD $15.5 MILLION) through the diplomatic services as a
family valuable in trunk box. After these incidents, the mission helped
us amongst others to move to Johannesburg South Africa where we
re-located under political asylum as a refugees to seek for foreign
partner overseas that will assist us move this money out of THE PLACE
OF DEPOSIT to your country as I and my family have made up our mind to
invest and live in your country. As an asylum seeker we are not allowed
to operate any Financial Transaction like this within SA. We
have agreed to offer you 30% of the total sum for your assistance as
soon as the money get`s into the account you will provide while 5% will
be mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of
this transaction both local and international. I want truth and honest
to be our watch word in this transaction and please treat this
transaction with strictly confidential for the successful out come of
it.PLEASE inform me on the best,faster and safer way of contacting and
communicating with you privately.
Thanks as I awaits to hear from you. Sincerely Yours, Mrs.Penelope B. Vusi


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