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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:
  • "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)
  • "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "@lawyer.com" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • barr_chris@lawyer.com
  • barrchris12345@lawyer.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "magret mushave" <magmushave105@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:47:58 +0200
Subject: FRIEND

MRS MAGRET WILLIAMS MUSHAVE
NO: 47 SOPER ROAD BEREA
FLAT 407 FABIAN HIEGHT
SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: 27-83-351-7619

Dear Sir,

This letter may come to you as a surprise, but be assured that it isin good
faith from a family in dare need of help. I am Mrs. MagretWilliams Mushave,
the wife of late Brigadier B. C. Williams Mushave,
the public relation officer to the late Laurent Kabila formerpresident of
the Democratic Republic of Congo who was assassinated on Tuesday, the 16th
of January 2001 by one of his bodyguards who
also comes from the same community with him. Your firm was introduced to me
by career diplomat whom I consulted in my search for a reliable individual
company who can assist my son David Williams Mushave in transferring a
reasonable sum of money US$ 22. 5 million (Twenty Two Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) into your company's private account for
safekeeping
and investment.

Originally this money (US$ 22. 5 million) was mapped out for military
seminar scheduled to be held on the 19th January 2001 in the capital city of
Kinshasa, and my husband was solely in charge of
the organizing of the seminar. Unfortunately the news of the assassination
of the president broke on the 16th and my husband used the opportunity to
divert the fund for our family future planning
and therefore cleverly moved into South Africa and deposited the consignment
containing the fund in private Security & Finance Company in South Africa.
He came back from South Africa after depositing the money and was arrested
along with other top officials of the government by Major General Joseph
Kabila, the son of the late president who is now the new president, with the
intention to rope them in, unfortunately my husband died in detention on the
15th April 2001.

All my traveling papers have been seized by the government thereby
preventing us from traveling and all the local and international outfit of
our business empire seized. This sum of money is our only
hope to stay alive. I have therefore agreed to compensate your good self
with 25% of the total deposit when you finally claim the deposit box from
the security firm and lodged in your account. They have equally guaranteed
100% risk-free and smooth transfer. If you are interested in assisting me,
Please kindly contact my Lawyer (Barrister Chrispetty)of Khumalo & Khumalo
Chambers on telephone number: 0027 82 7486759 E-mail:barr_chris@lawyer.com
or barrchris12345@lawyer.com For obvious security reasons, it is imperative
that you keep all our communication very secret. Do not mention my family's
name ordisclose the transaction to anybody.

If you are not interested in assisting me, still get in touch so that I can
make alternative arrangement as time is of the essence.Please do not expose
me.
And also please do furnish me with your private telephone and fax numbers
for easier and effective communication.

I wish to assure you that this transaction is risk free and
machinery necessary for the speedy conclusion has been successfully
arranged.

Thanks and God bless.

Dr Magret Williams Mushave
27-83-351-7619

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