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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:
  • "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)
  • "i got your address from " (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • phiford@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Monica Ford <mo.ford04@live.co.za>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:00:04 +0200
Subject: Greetings From Mrs. Monica Ford!!!!!!!!!!



FROM:MRS.MONICA FORD. HARARE ZIMBABWEAN.
. Good day, I NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE This letter may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial as a matter of urgency, I am a desperate widow looking for a foreign partner whom I can trust to handle some investment or fund movement. My name is Mrs.Monica Ford, the wife of late Mr.Terry Ford, (BLESSED MEMORIAL) who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate Black people. I am writing to you from Harare Zimbabwean.
I got your address from the Internet through the consultancy directory during my search for a reliable and honest person to transact this business with,it was were I came across your contact details. 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 farmland 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 (Mr.Terry Ford). But before the death of my late husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he deposited the sum of US$11.4m(Eleven Million Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in the name of our only son Phillip Ford, with the help of reputable security/financial 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 18 March 2002, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our Farm and gun him (my husband) to death. Since then, they have been terrorizing my only son Phillip, but he managed to escape to a neighbouring country, South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee). But his position in South Africa does not permit he 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 him to invest it in your country. Hence, if you agree to assist us, we will offer you 20% of the total money for your assistance, While 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of this transaction.75% will be for our family investment in your country that will be in your directives through your assistance. I need your urgent and confidential response, if you are willing to assist us. Please kindly contact my Son Phillip Ford in South Africa with his private contact details, TEL: 00 27 83 358 1888 email address (phiford@yahoo.com ) Your Sincerely, Mrs. Monica Ford. (For The Family). Upon your immediate response, He will immediately arrange and send to you All the information’s that will empower your good self in finalizing the transaction with the security company there in south Africa, he will also send to you the agreement that will protect both interest. And also further information about yourself is necessary for I can not play on this. Waiting for your prompt and positive response. You can ready more news about my late husband through the website:(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1878846.stm ) Contact my son urgently because he will be waiting to hear from you , I have inform he to expect your respond.
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