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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:
  • "million 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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 "Zimbabwe" 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.
  • ngo_emma1@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "EMMANUEL NGOBENI" <ngo_emma1@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ngo_emma1@myway.com
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 13:15:21 +0100
Subject: FROM Mr.EMMANUEL NGOBENI,,,

FROM Mr.EMMANUEL NGOBENI
E MAIL:ngo_emma1@myway.com

Attn:Sir/Madam


I know you will be surprised to receive this proposal. Actually I got your contact address from the South African Information Exchange International [SAIEI] here in South
Africa when I was making an intensive research for my investment in your country. Then, I decided to contact you directly. First and foremost, by introduction, I am
Mr.EMMANUEL NGOBENI , the only surviving son of the late DR. JOHNSON NGOBENI of Zimbabwe.

During the current crisis against the farmers of Zimbabwe by the supporters of our president mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country, he ordered all the
white and rich black farmers to surrender their farms to his party members and their followers. My father was one of the rich black farmers in the country and a major
financier/sponsor of the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change {MDC} and knowing that my father did not support his Political ideology and long stay in
Government, the president Robert Mugabe’s supporters invaded my father’s farm and walked inside grabbed my Mom and Dad, tired them together and light them up.

You can not beleived the kept me and my sister hostage and i watched our parent burned to ashes.


After the death of my father and mother, I and my younger sister decided to move out of Zimbabwe for the safety of our life. Before the death of my father, he has already
sold most of the family businesses, as if he foresaw the looming danger and drawn my attention to a deposited cash asset of three Million United States Dollars
[US$3,000,000.00] he realized from the sales of our farmland and profits maximizes. His intentions were to establish new farms in Republic of Swaziland and Malawi before
the ugly incidence that took away his life. This fund is presently being kept away in a Security/Finance Company in Johannesburg South Africa for safe keeping.

I am looking for any reliable person overseas who is willing to help me and my sister to transfer this money out from South Africa and use it for investment in his/her country
because we are asylum seekers here in South Africa and asylum seekers status in South Africa prohibits any refugee to open or operate a non-resident account with any
commercial bank through which this fund will be channeled out into a nominated overseas account. This is our reason of contacting you for assistance. As a foreigner,
believing that you could be trusted to be part of my family in the management of this fund.

If my proposition is considered, for assisting us to transfer this money to your country, we will offer you 30% of the total sum while 70% will be for my family investment in your
country under your supervision. We are obliged to inform you that we do not force you to help us but from your sincere mind or to take undue advantage of our present
predicament. What is required most is your absolute consent and supports that we are safe in your hands in building this confidence reposed upon you from a distance family.


Please you can contact us on:
E-mail:ngo_emma1@myway.com

Note that the relevant legal documents of this asset are intact that empowers our legal ownership of the asset.

Best Regards,

Mr.EMMANUEL NGOBENI [For the family].

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