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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.
• 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.
  • +27834389895 (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.
  • joymama@webmail.co.za
  • 3ajoymama@webmail.co.za
  • mamaluisgabon@webmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3amamaluisgabon@webmail.co.za

Fraud email example:

From: "joysonson1 joysonson1" <joysonson1@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:20:29 +0200
Subject: MRS JOY GABON.


FROM:MRS JOY GABON
TEL:+27-834389895
Fax+27-835911789
Fax+27-115075313
CONTACT EMAIL:joymama@webmail.co.za <EMAIL%3Ajoymama@webmail.co.za>

FAMILY
LETTER

ATTEN:CEO/DIRECTOR
DEAR

This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial;As a matter of
urgency, i am desparatel looking for a foriegn partner whom i can trust to
handle some investment or fund movement. I am MRS.JOY GABON wife of late
MR.GABON JOHN MARTINS, who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and
sponsored assasins of the tyrant Robert Mugabe.

I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by
atyrannical 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 irrate party
members to disposess the land being occupied by white farmers. This action
has led to the killing of some members of opposition party...The MDC
including my husband(MR.GABON JOHN MARTINS), who did do not support this
ill-fated action.
But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he
deposited the sum of US$15.4m(Fifteen million four hundered Thousand United
States Dollars)in the name of our only son MR LOUIS at a reputable security
company in South Africa with the intention of using to open fertilizer
manufacturing company among other companies in our neighbouring country
(Swaziland )after his university education.

On 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, LOUIS , but he managed to escape to a
neighbouring country, South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee).

I and my two daughters are right now in the Republic of South Africa as
Assylum refugees because of the social political and economic crises in my
country (Zimbabwe) which detoriates everyday by day especially AFTER THIS
RECENT VISIT OF THE U.S PRESIDENT G.W.BUSH TO AFRICA AND CONDERMED THE
MUGABE'S REGIME.
Also, there is massive arrest and five years detainsion of all the
protestants and the MDC supporters as ordered by President Robert Mugabe.

Conseqently, our status/position here 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 out of Africa continent
(BEFORE IT IS FROOZEN BY THE ROARING LION of the tyrant Robert Mugabe's
regime) into your private/company account so that you will assist us to
invest it in your country.
But before we continue in this transaction, we would have to sign an
AGREEMENT for our protection and rights.

Also, i wish to inform you that this transaction is NOT A CHILD'S PLAY and
it is 100% REAL AND RISK FREE and been assisted by an international business
law firm based here in South Africa and we are looking forward to employing
the services of another law firms in USA to prove its transparency and
legitimacy and avoid all any interception by the internal, international and
multi-national monetary bodies.

Hence,if you agree to assist us, we will offer you 20% of the money for your
assistance, 10% will be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of
this transaction, while 70% will be for our family investment(s) in your
country through your assistance.
I need your urgent and confidential response.

Best Regards.
MRS JOY GABON.

PLS CONTACT ME WITH THIS EMAIL ADDRESS:

FROM:MRS JOY GABON
TEL:+27-834389895
Fax+27-115075313
CONTACT EMAIL:mamaluisgabon@webmail.co.za<EMAIL%3Amamaluisgabon@webmail.co.za>
CONTACT EMAIL:joymama@webmail.co.za <EMAIL%3Ajoymama@webmail.co.za>
mamaluisgabon@webmail.co.za

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