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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)
• 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.
  • +27761869116 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
  • +27865133434 (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.
  • chibalafamilyszi2000@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "will will" <myfatherwill@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:57:23 -0700
Subject: HELP MY SON TRANSFER THIS FUND INTO YOUR COMPANY ACCOUNT.


*HELP MY SON TRANSFER THIS FUND INTO YOUR COMPANY ACCOUNT.*

*From: Mrs. Joyce F. Chibala*

*33 North Rd** Randburg East *

*Johannesburg**, South Africa**. *

*Phone: +27-76-1869116*

*Fax: +27-86-5133434*

*Email: chibalafamilyszi2000@gmail.com *

* *

*Dear Sir, Lee Quee Cheen,*

* *

*This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial as a matter of
urgency, I am desperately looking for a foreign partner whom I can trust to
handle some investment or fund movement. *

* *

*I am Mrs. Joyce F. Chibala, wife of late Mr. Frank Chibala, who was
murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people. I am writing
from South Africa. If well executed as your contact is via AMERICAN ONLINE
INTERNET NETWORK through the consultancy directory during my search for a
reliable and honest person to transact this business with. I write to
solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical
government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party-president Robert
Mugabe. Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government
secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to
dispossess the land being occupied by white farmers. This action has led to
the killing of some members of opposition party including my husband (Mr.
Frank Chibala)*

* *

*But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he
deposited the sum of US$15.5m (Fifteen million five hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) in the name of our only son Fortune Chibala, Jr, with the
help of reputable security company in South Africa with the intention of
using it to open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in
our neighboring country (Swaziland) after his university education. *

*The war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into
our compound and axed him (my husband) to death. Since then, they have been
terrorizing my only son, Fortune Chibala, Jr, but we managed to escape to a
neighboring country, South Africa as a political asylum seeker (Refugee).But
our position in South Africa does not permit us to open an account or run
any huge financial business. *

* *

*That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your private account so
that you will assist him to invest it in your country. Hence, if you agree
to assist us, we will 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 need your urgent and confidential response. *

* *

*Best regards,*

* *

*Mrs. Joyce F. Chibala, (For the Family)*

* *

*Upon your immediate response, I will immediately arrange and send to you
all the information's that will empower your good self in finalizing the
transaction with the security company here in South Africa I will also send
to you the agreement that will protect both interest. And also further
information about yourself is necessary, for I can not play on this. *

* *

*Waiting for your prompt and positive response, please read about problems
in Zimbabwe from the link below. *

* *

*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm *

*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm *

*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm *

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