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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:
  • "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)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +27762433066 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Kingdom Nelson" <king_nelson_don0004@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:26:35 +0000
Subject: A LUCRATIVE DEAL FOR OUR PARTNERSHIP.

Attn: President/CEO,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you by e-mail due to the urgency of this transaction. With due regards, I take the liberty to contact you for an urgent business transaction which will be of immense benefit to all parties concerned.

Let me start first by introducing myself to you, I am Dr. Kingdom Nelson. A citizen of South Africa and (50) Years of age. I represent the board of the contract award and monitoring committee of the South African Ministry of Mining and Resources. I am seeking your assistance to enable me transfer the sum of US$50,500,000.00 (Fifty Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) into your private/company account. The fund came about as a result of a contract awarded and executed for and on behalf of my Ministry. I met this opportunity from my own department due to the deals doing further in various departments of government in the Republic of South Africa, which all the parties involve are going free after hitting their respective deals. I will give the two bellow webpages to you as a proof before my continuation of our transactional conversations:

http://www.suntimes.co.za/2003/08/31/news/news17.asp  

http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/10/03/safrica.arms/index.html

The contract in subject was supposed to be awarded to two foreign contractors to the tune of US$200,000,000.00 (Two hundred Million United States Dollars). But in the course of negotiation, the contract was awarded to a Bulgarian contractor at the cost of US$149,500,000.00 (One hundred and Forty-nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) to my benefit unknown to the contractor. This contract has been satisfactorily executed and inspected as the Bulgarian firm is presently securing payment from my Ministry, where our Board is in-charge of all foreign contract payment approval. As a civil servant still in active government service, law forbids me to operate an account outside the shores of South Africa. Hence this message to you seeking your assistance so as to enable me present your private/company account details as a beneficiary of contractual claims alongside that of the Bulgarian contractor, to enable me transfer the difference of US$50,500,000.00 (Fifty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) into your provided account.

On actualization, the fund will be disbursed as stated below.

1. 30% of the fund will be for your assistance and management fees.

2. 70% of the fund will be for us.

All logistics,documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. For further details as to the workability of this transaction, please reach me as soon as possible for further clarification.

Thank you and God bless as I await your urgent response.

Yours Sincerely,

DR. KINGDOM NELSON.

+27 76 243 3066.

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