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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 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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "chief auditor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27783186182 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
  • +27866028332 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • consultant_gk@yahoo.ca

Fraud email example:

From: "CONSULT CONSULT" <ccdani004@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 17:05:05 +0200
Subject: RE-URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE


FROM THE DESK OF KHUMALO GEORGE
12 EAST GATE ROAD JOHANNSSBURG
SOUTH AFRICA
TEL:+27-783186182
Fax:+27-866028332
Reply; consultant_gk@yahoo.ca

ATTN:MD/C.E.O,


I am Mr. Khumalo George, the chief auditor of FIRST NATIONAL BANK of
South Africa (FNB). I got your contact address from your country's Trade
Journal.
Your impressive and managerial records made me to solicit for your
Partnership in these regards. You are the only person that I have contacted

for this business in believe that you will not let me down.

After going through some old files in the records in my own department,
I discovered that there was an account opened in this our bank since 1982
and
1992, and since then till now nobody has operated on this account.

The owner of this account as I discovered from bank record is late
Mr. Jerome N. Snaga, a foreigner and a miner at the Anglo Gold Platinum
Mining Company in Mafikeng South Africa, as a geologist by profession
and he has died since 1992 and Up till now, no other person knows about this
account or anything concerning it.

The account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me that

his company does not know anything about this account .the company has
folded
up after the death of late Mr. Jerome N. Snaga, a foreigner and a miner at
the Anglo
Gold south africa and the amount involved in the account is US$22.5m
(Twenty Two Million, five hundred thousand United dollars) which i want to
transfer
out of south africa into a safe foreign account abroad ,but I've not
gotten a trusted
foreigner who will claim this money in his name. That is the reason i am
contacting
you to present your name as the beneficiary ( next of kin) so that we will
be able to
transfer the funds to your bank account.

I need your strong assurance, honesty trust and reliability with my full
position in my department I can transfer this money to any reliable
account, which you can provide .

upon successful transfer of the funds i will offer you 35% of the total
funds for your assistance, 60% will be for me while 5% will be set aside for
expenses that might be
incurred during the course of this transaction I strongly believe that
associating with
you to embark on this fund, other business ventures will derive a huge
success there after.

please to fasten this transaction ,kindly give me your private or personal
phone and fax number for easy communication on this money.

Am looking forward to hear urgent response from you

YOURS FRIEND

KHUMALO GEORGE

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