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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 - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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 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.
  • +27839802068 (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.
  • mr_johnson_dube@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • johnson_dube_mr@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: johnson_dube_mr@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:42:41 +0200
Subject: HOW ARE YOU?

SUITE 120 JUBILEE SOUTH GATE,
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL: +27-83-980-2068.
E-MAIL: (mr_johnson_dube@yahoo.com)
E-MAIL: (johnson_dube_mr@yahoo.com)


DEAR,

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 MR.JOHNSON DUBE the son of MR.DENNIS DUBE
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 father who was one of the best farmers in our
country and treasury of the farmer's co-operation
did not support his idea and so the party members
invaded my father's farms and burnt everything in the
farm, killed my father and made away with a lot of
items in my father's farm.

After the death of my father, my family and I decided
to move out of Zimbabwe because our lives were in
danger with the money that my father kept in his
hidden safe in my house. The amount contained in the
safe is US$22M (Twenty Two Million United states
Dollars) and we decided to move the money 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 25% of the total sum for helping
us to move this money out to your country and 5% will
be mapped out for expenses both of us may inure
during this transaction and 70% 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 your
personal phone and fax numbers for easy communication.
You can contact me on the above Tel +27-83-980-2068,
/E-mail (mr_johnson_dube@yahoo.com) Or
(johnson_dube_mr@yahoo.com).

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

Thanks and God bless you.

Best regards,

MR.JOHNSON DUBE
(For the Family)

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