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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 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)
  • ",500,000" (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 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.
  • +27724496758 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
  • +27865404921 (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.
  • 5f001@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: MICHAEL DUBE <michaeldube001@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:02:23 +0200
Subject: FROM MICHAEL DUBE.




FROM MICHAEL DUBE.
E MAIL:michaeldube=5F001@hotmail.com
FAX: +27-86 540 4921/ TEL: +27 72 449 6758

Attn: Sir/Madam=20

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. Fi=
rst and foremost, by introduction, I am Mr. MICHAEL DUBE, the only survivi=
ng son of the late DR. JOHNSON DUBE of Zimbabwe.=20

During the current crisis against the farmers of Zimbabwe by the supporter=
s of our president Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our countr=
y, he ordered all the white and rich black farmers to surrender their farm=
s 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 oppositi=
on party Movement for Democratic Change {MDC} and knowing that my father d=
id not support his Political ideology and long stay in Government, the pre=
sident Robert Mugabes supporters invaded my fathers farm, strangled him to=
death with my Mom and burnt them.=20

You can not believed they kept me and my sister hostage and I watched our =
parent burnt to ashes.=20

After the death of my father and mother, I and my younger sister decided t=
o 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 foresa=
w the looming danger and drawn my attention to a deposited cash asset of E=
ight Million five hundred thousand United States Dollars [US$8,500,000.00]=
he realized from the sales of our farmland and profits maximizes. His int=
entions were to establish new farms in Republic of Swaziland and Malawi be=
fore the ugly incidence that took away his life. This fund is presently be=
ing kept away in a Security/Finance Company in Pretoria South Africa for s=
afe keeping.

I am looking for any reliable person overseas who is willing to help me an=
d my sister to transfer this money out from South Africa and use it for in=
vestment in his/her country because we are asylum seekers here in South Af=
rica and asylum seekers status in South Africa prohibits any refugee to op=
en or operate a non-resident account with any commercial bank through whic=
h 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 thi=
s fund.=20

If my proposition is considered, for assisting us to transfer this money t=
o your country, we will offer you 30% of the total sum while 65% will be f=
or my family investment in your country under your supervision, and 5% wil=
l kept aside for any expenses that we will incur during and after the tran=
saction. 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 predi=
cament. What is required most is your absolute consent and supports that w=
e are safe in your hands in building this confidence reposed upon you from=
a distance family.=20

Please you can contact us on my private email above or call me on my numbe=
r above.=20

Note that the relevant legal documents of this asset are intact that empow=
ers our legal ownership of the asset.=20

Best Regards,

Mr. Michael Dube [For the family]


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