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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:
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +27731372776 (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.
  • mrsjoyce_zuma220@yahoo.com
  • mrsjoyce_zuma220@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Joyce Zuma" <joyce_zuma4@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:24:31 -0500
Subject: URGENT FAMILY ASSISTANCE

URGENT FAMILY ASSISTANCE
FROM:MRS JOYCE ZUMA
TELL+27 73 13 72 77 6
EMAIL.mrsjoyce_zuma220@yahoo.com



ATTN: THE CHAIRMAN/ MD,

I know you will be surprised to hear from me but please consider this letter
as a request from a family in dire need of your assistance,since you do not
know me personally but for the introduction, I am MRS. JOYCE ZUMA the wife
of LATE MR. REMOND ZUMA the renowned zimbabwe wined and cattle ranch and
farmar owner of Remonds farms in zimbabwe,who was recently murdered in the
land dispute in Zimbabwe. I got your contact through the South African
Information Exchange (S.A.I.E) here in South Africa and I decided to write
for your assistance.

My late husband was among the few black Zimbabwean well-to-do farmers
murdered in cold blood by supporters and agents of the ruling government of
president Robert Mugabe for their alleged support and sympathy for the
Zimbabwean opposition party controlled and sponsored by the whites minority.
Before his death, he had took me to Johannesburg to deposit the sum of US$
20Million (Twenty Million United States Dollars) with a security and finance
company as if he knew the looming Danger about to happen in Zimbabwe.

The money was deposited in a box as treasures With security company to avoid
the possibility of knowing that it was money and has an insured cover.This
money was earmarked for the purchase of machinery’s and chemicals for his
farms and the establishment of new farms in neighboring countries Malawi and
Mozambique.

The land problem arose when President Robert Mugabe introduced a new land
Reform Act that wholly affects all the well-to-do farmers most of them
whites.Some few blacks vehemently condemned the system adopted by the
government that resulted to rampant killing and mob actions by the war
veterans some political supporters which hundred of people been killed.
However, heads of government from the westernworld especially the Britain
and the United States of America have voiced their condemnation of mugabe,s
plans.consequent upon this,the Southern African Development Community
(S.A.D.C)has continuously supported Mugabe’s new land reforms Acts.

It is against this back ground that I and my family who are currently
residing in the Republic of South Africa have decided to transfer this said
amount out of South Africa into a foreign bank account.

As a widow, I am confronted with the responsibility of seeking a reliable
and honest person or persons with genuine foreign bank account where this
money could be transferred into without much taxation and problem of being
defrauded. I am faced with the problem of investing this amount of money in
the South Africa because my country and South Africa have almost the same
political history. Moreso, the South African foreign policy on political
asylums does not allow such investment since I am residing under such
status(asylumseeker.)As a Somebody whom I am going to entrust my future and
that of my family in his hands,I must let you know that this transaction is
100% riskfree.

Therefore, if you accept to assist my family,and me, we are willing to offer
you 40% of the total sum for your assistance, then the rest will be for my
family If this proposal is accepted by you, please do reply by sending me
with this my email address above as confidentiality of this transaction
cannot be over emphasized .Kindly, send your phone number and fax number for
easier communication and to maintain the secrecy and confidentiality of this
transaction.Thanks you very much for your understanding and co-operation in
advance. God bless you.


Best regards
Mrs.Joyce Zuma
For the family
contact us through this email address
EMAIL.mrsjoyce_zuma220@yahoo.com

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