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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:
  • "please endeavor to " (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)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "my direct telephone number" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • zuma_mandela2@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: zuma mandela <zuma_mandela2@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: edvige_coulibaly@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:32:22 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: can i trust with this?


From: Mr Zuma mandela
Email: zuma_mandela2@yahoo.fr
Abdijan west Africa.

My dear,
I am Mr. Zuma mandela, the son of Comrade Border Mandela who was the former Zimbabwean Minister for youth, gender and Employment creation. While alive, my father stood against seizure of white farms and its distribution to the blacks without compensation to the white owners.

First and foremost, I apologized using this medium to reach you for a transaction / business of this
magnitude, but this is due to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium. In unfolding this proposal, I want to count on you, as a respected and honest person to handle this transaction with sincerity, trust and confidentiality. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the transaction described hereunder for the benefit of all parties involved and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature of
this transaction.

Because of what is happening in the world today and to verify my predicaments as well as my sincerity, I would like you to visit the site below to read more about my late father.
Www.Mweb.co.zw/standard/index.php?
Id=2908&pubdate=2001-04-29
ww.dailynews.co.zw/daily/2001/December/December4/3891.htm1
www.zimbabwewhitefarmers.co.zw

Because of my father's sincerity, he was killed by a planned motor accident along Harare-Masvingo Road near Mvuma Province of Zimbabwe. But before his untimely death, my father told me some few weeks earlier that he kept a box with a private Security and finance Company in Abidjan, West Africa which contains US$4.5 Million (four million, five hundred thousand United States dollars). He warned that he only declared the contents of the box to the Security and finance Company as family treasure / valuables, with insurance values of the said amount.
He also told me that he used my name as the beneficiary of this money being his first child.

The original document that shows the Deed of lodge, Proof of Deposit, and Depository Agreement between my late father and the Management of the Security Company are with my mother.

After my father's death, I ran to Abidjan West africa with my mother and little sister to seek asylum for our lives. Because of the Abidjan financial law which prohibits asylum seekers/refugees like my mother and I to open bank account or involve in any financial transaction, I decided to write to you to seek your assistance for this money to be transferred into your company or personal bank account while all arrangement for a hitch free transfer have been fully taken care of.
I have the authority of my family to propose that should you be willing to assist us in this transaction your share of compensation will be (15%), while my family takes US$ (75%) and the balance of (10%) for miscellaneous expenses that may be incurred by either party during the transfer.

I want to let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free provided you treat it with utmost
confidentiality because the Zimbabwean Government are bent on collecting all assets / properties belonging to my late father. Please endeavor to call me on my direct telephone number +01123760 to acknowledge the receipt of this email and for more confidential reason, reply me via my private email address indicated above. Remember to include your direct telephone and fax numbers in your reply.

Finally, I do hope of establishing a good relationship with you and your family after this transaction. I wait to hear from you.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Zuma mandela.(For the family)

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