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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:
  • "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. )
  • "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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • erossman29@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Eunice Rossman" <erossman_60@msn.com>
Reply-To: erossman29@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:33:40 +0000
Subject: From The Depth of my heart

FROM:EUNICE ROSSMAN
SUITE 120 BOLINGTON
PARKTOWN,JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA
Email:erossman29@hotmail.com



Attn: President/Ceo,

With due respect, trust and humility, I write you this proposal, which I
believe would be of great interest to you.I found your contact while I was
doing a private research on the Internet for a reliable and capable foreign
partner that will assist me and my family.

I am Mrs.Eunice Rossman the wife of Mr.Dennis Rossman of Zimbabwe. During
the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from the support of our
President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country,
all the white farmers were ordered to surrender their farms to his party
members and his followers.My husband who was one of the best farmers in our
country and treasurer of the farmers co-operation did not support his idea,
so the party members invaded my husband's farms and burnt everything in the
farm, killed my husband and made away with a lot of items in his farm.

After the death of my husband, I and my family decided to move out of
Zimbabwe because our lives were in danger with the money that my husband
kept in his hidden safe in my house.The amount contained in the safe is
US$21M (Twenty One Million United states Dollars) and move to the Republic
of South Africa where we deposited the money in a Security
Company as a valuable item.

So I decided to make contact with an overseas firm whom will assist me to
move this money out of South Africa, because we are asylum seekers here in
South Africa.So if you consider this proposal, we have agreed to give you
30% of the total sum for helping us to move this money out to your country
and 10% will be mapped out for expenses both of us may incur during this
transaction and 60% will be for me and family to
invest in your country.


All I want is for you to furnish me with all your details and you're
personal phone and fax numbers for easy communication. You can contact me on
the above email address.

NOTE: That this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely confidential.

Thanks and God bless you.

Best regards,
Eunice Rossman (Mrs)
(For The Family)

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