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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:
  • "million 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)
  • ",000,000" (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 orphan scam.
• 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.
  • morganmakumbe@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "moor mark" <mmark196@gmail.com>
Reply-To: morganmakumbe@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:20:09 +0200
Subject: good news


From: Morgan Makumbe

Address: Marques De Villamagna, 4,
28001, Madrid Spain.

Email: morganmakumbe@gmail.com




Dear Sir,

My name is Morgan Makumbe from Zimbabwe presently residing in Madrid, Spain.
I inherited the sum of USD$ 9,000,000.00 (Nine Million United States
Dollars) from my late father who was killed secretly by President Robert
Mugabe's ruling party for supporting the opposition party during the last
Zimbabwe election.

To check out more about the Zimbabwe political crises, please log into:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Zimbabwean_political_crisis

l am now faced with a problem. On the certificate of deposit which states me
as the next of kin, my late father appended a clause stating that: I the
next of kin, must attain the age of 25 years before taking full control of
the deposited fund in the Security Company; But, in the event of war, crisis
or natural disasters, the security company should honor a release of the
deposit which was kept as family valuables for the safety of the deposit;
And in this case, I must have an investment manager, who will act as my
guardian.

I am not yet 25 years and I have come to find out that here is not a safe
country for me because they are racist and foreigners are being humiliated
every day. So I want the Security Company to release the deposit to me but
they are insisting that l fulfill the conditions put down by my late father
while making the deposit. This is actually reason why l am looking for an
investment manager.

I would like you to be my investment manager. When you become my investment
manager, l would instruct the security company release the deposit to you as
my investment manager so that you will be able to help me invest the money
wisely. I assure you that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. I will employ
the services of an attorney here who will handle the documentation and
present you to the Security Company as my Investment manager.

If you would like to be my investment manager, please write me as soon as
possible though email or fax. I am willing to give you 25% of the total
money.

To help the attorney in the documentation, your follow data will be needed:

Full Name:
Full Address:
Telephone and Cell Numbers:
Private Email:
Age:
Occupation:
Country of Origin:

I will be expecting to hear positively from you as soon as possible.

Regards.



Morgan Makumbe

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