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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "your humble assistance" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a "Zimbabwe" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Ngonoh Mutari." <ngonoh@she.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 08:24:15 +0700
Subject: I will appreciate your reply

Dear Sir,

I very well know you will be surprise to read from me, a total stranger but please consider this letter as a genuine request from a
family in dire need of your humble assistance. Firstly, I must introduce myself. I am Ngonoh Mutari. A citizen of Zimbabwe ,
but I am contacting you from Bangkok Thailand where I am now seeking political asylum. I got your contact through the Thailand
Information Exchange Online.

I am the only son of Mr. Christopher Gambo Mutari, a wealthy black farmer and senior politician with the opposition political
party in my country’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Our wicked President Robert Mugabe murdered my father,
before I ran way from my country because I have become his next target to eliminate. My father was a fighter for Justice and a
moving force in The MDC, a party wanting to end the several years of brutal Dictatorship government of President Robert Mugabe.
You will read more stories about President Mugabe's brutal acts by visiting this web site:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2000/0418/zimbabwe.html

My father was accused of assisting the White farmers in fighting the government. Few weeks after his arrest, he was reported dead.
The government claimed he died of heart attack and his body was never seen for proper autopsy, they quickly buried him in the
government cemetery. My father's associate Mr. Martin Olds a White farmer from Britain assisted me in fighting my father's death
through the Court and media.

The Government saw us as a big threat to them and decided to eliminate us. Mr. Olds was attacked and murdered in his House, but
fortunately, before they came looking for me, I received the news and I left the country through the border to South Africa to save my
life, before my arrival here in Bangkok Thailand.

Here is my reason for contacting you. Before the death of my father, he deposited the sum of Nine Million Six Hundred Thousand
US Dollars (US$9,600,000.00) with a security and finance company when he went to Thailand to purchase his farm machinery
equipment, as if he foresee the looming danger in Zimbabwe . The money was deposited as a gem/precious stone in a metal trunk box
to avoid seizure and much demurrage from the security company. This money was earmarked for the purchase of new machinery and
chemicals for the farms and the establishment of new farms in Lesotho and Swaziland .

The government seized my father’s farms and bank account before his arrest and Murder. He told me everything concerning the funds
while he was still in detention. This is why I need your assistance in securing the funds there in your Country, so that I can arrange on
how to come over to your country for the investment of the fund, I am willing to offer you 15% of the US$9,600,000.00 for your
assistance and you are to provide an account where the funds will be transferred into because I am faced with the dilemma of
investing this amount of money in Thailand as the financial law and regulations of the government of Thailand does not give we asylum
seekers financial rights to such huge sum of money. In view of this, I cannot invest the fund in Bangkok Thailand . Moreover, the
Thailand monetary policy/law does not allow such investment by an asylum seeker or refugee. Kindly let me know if you can assist
me, so that I can give you more details on how we shall proceed. You can contact me by reply mail on the above mail
While I await your urgent reply, I thank you again for finding time to go through my mail. As you opt to help, may
Almighty God bless you abundantly.

Yours truly,

Ngonoh Mutari.

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