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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "first national bank" (not involved with lotteries)
• 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)
  • "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)
  • ",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 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.
  • johnsonzuma.south@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • hnsonzuma.south@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: Mr johnson zuma <johnsonzuma.south@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 21:47:49 +0200
Subject: Transfer of US$15,000,000.00


FIRST NATIONAL BANK=20
SOUTH AFRICA,=20
=20
Good Day, I am Mr Johnson Zuma Auditor with First National Bank of South A=
frica {FNB} I have decided to send forward this proposal to you after some=
due deliberation. kindly permit me of my desire to inform you about the f=
und transfer of US$15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million United States Dollars) i=
nto your reliable bank account as the sole NEXT OF KIN to my client, Dr. G=
eorge Brumley Jr, foreign deceased customer of our bank and a renowned/ret=
ired medical doctor/surgeon from Atlanta USA. He opened a fixed deposit ac=
count,under my professional guidance, which he desire to fall, back no all=
through his retirement. He was killed with his entire family in a PLANE C=
RASH in Nairobi Kenya on Monday 21st July 2003.Click the website below and=
find out what happened to the Dr. George Brumley Jr and his entire family=
: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html [http:=
//www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html] [http://www.=
cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html]=20
After further investigation, l also discovered that Dr. George Brumley did=
not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper wo=
rk of his bank deposit. l remember he also confided in me the last time he=
was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. Ri=
ght now, Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars is s=
till lying in our bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What=
bothers me most is that according to the financial policy of my country, =
at the expiration of a numbers of years, these funds will revert to the ow=
nership of the South African Government as unclaimed funds if nobody appli=
es to claim the funds. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that=
I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Dr. George =
Brumley so that you will be able to receive his funds. Should you be inter=
ested please send me your full names, brief description of your occupation=
, direct telephone and fax Nu mbers and I will prefer you to reply me on m=
y personal e-mail address: (johnsonzuma.south@hotmail.com).Then [mailto:jo=
hnsonzuma.south@hotmail.com).Then] I shall provide you with more details o=
f this transaction. Please also note that I am willing to offer you 35% of=
the total money for your assistance. Your earliest response to this propo=
sal will be appreciated.=20
Be well and God Bless. Kind Regards,=20
Johnson Zuma=20
Email: johnsonzuma.south@hotmail.com [mailto:johnsonzuma.south@hotmail.com=
] [http://mail-us.gmx.com/fm07/cgi/g.fcgi/mail/new=3F&amp;to=3Djsn.zuma@yahoo.=
com]=20


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