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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:
  • "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)
  • "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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • +27787002278 (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.
  • fred_tumelo@mail2africa.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • ed_tumelo@mail2africa.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Fred Tumelo" <fredtumelo116@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fred_tumelo@mail2africa.com
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:43:26 -0700
Subject: RE:LETTER!


From: Mr. Fred Tumelo
Johannesburg South Africa.
Tel: +27 78 700 2278

URGENT
RESPONSE!

Dear,

I got your contact from Internet and I ask if you can be trusted not to
break an agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my mind to contact you
and to offer you this proposal of mine of which my whole life depends on.



My name is Mr. Fred Tumelo, the son of Late Mr. George N. Tumelo a
Zimbabwebusiness Man, And an active member of the opposition party in
Zimbabwe (MDC)




My father did not support Mugabe`s ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded our
house and burnt down everything, killing my Father and made away with a lot
of items in my Father's farm house.



Before his death, my father had deposited a total sum of US$5,200,000.00
(Five Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with a Security
and Finance house in Johannesburg South Africa (The documents of which he
only made me aware of it.)



After the death of my father on the 4th of June 2008, I and my mother with
my two Sisters decide to move to South Africa where we re-located under
political asylum as a refugee and at the same time, seek for a foreign
partner overseas that will assist us to move this money out of South Africa.
All I am asking you is to assist us to transfer this money out of South
Africa for investment purposes in your country.

The reason being that I and my mother are living in South Africa as
political asylum seekers and the financial laws of South Africa do not allow
Asylum Seekers certain financial rights, and besides the South African ANC
government under president Thambo Mbeki seems to be playing along with
Robert Mugabe and so we do not feel comfortable here in South Africa.



I want truth and honest to be our watchword in this transaction and please
treat this transaction with strictly confidential.

Note that this transaction is 100% Risk free and absolutely confidential.



Get back to me immediately you receive this message for further details.



Please respond through my more secured email address :( *
fred_tumelo@mail2africa.com<http://uk.mc272.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?toed_tumelo@mail2africa.com>)
*

Thanks and God bless you.
Sincerely Yours,
Mr. Fred Tumelo
Tel: +27 78 700 2278

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