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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:
  • "money laundering" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "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)
• 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.
  • +27731702143 (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.
  • paulduke084@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • @gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE <paulduke084@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:52:56 +0200
Subject: Subject: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE PLEAZE




FROM:MR PAUL DUKE
TELL:+27-73-170-21-43
105 SANDTON AVENUE
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA.
e-mail paulduke084@gmail.com [mailto:paulduke084@gmail.com]
HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE PLEAZE

ATTN: SIR / MADAM,
I am Mr. PAUL DUKE , son of late Mr. JONAS DUKE who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people. Before the death of my father on the 29th of Oct 2004, he was a Prosperous Tobacco and Coffee farmer in Zimbabwe and one of the major sponsor/ Financier of the opposition party - Movement For Democratic Change(MDC)in Zimbabwe. He was also the former president of Farmers Co-operative Trade Union in Zimbabwe.
I am writing you from Johanessburg,South Africa . I got your contact email address through Business online network and decided to write you. I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by the dictator President ROBERT MUGABE and his(ZANU-PF) ruling party.
I am probably of the convince that you are aware of the present situation in my country Zimbabwe sequel to the land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to disposes the land being occupied by whites and some rich farmers who are opposed to his consistent stay in power and his radical and unnecessary reforms targeted at his political opponents.
This action has led to the killing of some members of the opposition party including my father (JONAS DUKE),who did not support this ill-fated action. But before the death of my fath er and the consistent threats to his life, he anticipated some dangers and so he smuggled out the sum of US$22.5m(TWENTY-TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND United States Dollars), to South Africa since it is the nearest neighboring country and deposited it in a security company with the intention of using it for the purchase of New farm machinery and chemicals for Agricultural purposes in South Africa as well as a purchase of some hectares of land in Swaziland.
On the 29th Oct, 2004, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him(my father) to death. Since then, they have been terrorizing my family but we succeeded to work for our escape to a neighboring country, South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee). But his position in South Africa does not permit us to open an account o r normalise this fund for any meaningful business transaction in south Africa since we does not have a south Africa
Identity Card. That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your Norminated account so that you will assist us to invest it in your country.

Hence, if you agree to assist us, we have two options for you, we have agreed to go into partnership with you and your family or in the alternative, we offer you 20%of the money for your assistance, 5% will be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 75%will be for our family investment in your country, through your assistance.
I want you to understand that this fund is purely a family fund and not a drug money, nor could it be classified as government fund or Money Laundering affairs and it could be substantiated by relevant authorities by our attorney.
It is Family fund but termed confidential because I do not want my family to be traced to where he is presently. If you are interested in assisting us, kindly contact us with this email: paulduke084@@gmail.com [mailto:paulduke084@@gmail.com] address, and the telephone number above.
Right now, I am presently in south Africa with my family and the tensed political situation and the fear for our lives in Zimbabwe. I need your urgent and confidential response.

Thanks. Best regards
Mr. Paul duke (For the Family)

Please read about problems in Zimbabwe from the link below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/afri [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/afri] ca/918781.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm]



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