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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:
  • "trunk boxes" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money)
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • jmazemba@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Jonas Mazemba" <jmazemba@netscape.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:36:56 +0200
Subject: Investment/Partnership Proposal


Good day Sir/Madam

It is my wish to inform you about my interest of investment /partnership
with you.
My name is Jonas Mazemba a citizen of Angola and now resident in Ivory
Coast, West Africa;
I have very much interest to invest with you, for I have a huge sum of
money in my possession now wasting for
nothing.

I inherited the sum of $37.3million US Dollars from my father who owned a
diamond company before he
died during the civil war in my country Angola. But before the war started
he took all his money away and
lodged with a Security company, the money was put inside two metallic trunk
boxes.The actual content of the
boxes was not disclosed to anyone. It was deposited as family
valuables.Unfortunately the war started and my
father was killed, now that my father is dead, I, Jonas Mazemba, inherited
the money and other properties
from my father Peter Mazemba. Before my father was killed, he signed a deed
that allows me to claim these
boxes only if I have a forign partner or investor.

I will be very much pleased if you can help me to use your name and sign
the change of ownership form, as
one of my business associates oversea. By using your name, it will help for
easy transfer of the consignment
out of the country through a Diplomatic Courier Service.

I would like to hear from you if you find the partnership being possible
and ready to go along with me.
But , I hope and believe that it is going to work out between me and you
because partnership and friendship
begings one day.

If I get your positve reply, I and my mother will go to my father's Lawyers and present your name and then
wait for other requirements that follows.

If you are ready to do this for me, 20% of the money shall be for you. You
can contact me on this email
address; jmazemba@netscape.net

Hoping to read from you soonest.

Thanks and God bless

Jonas Mazemba.

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