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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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• 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.
  • +27737758672 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS FELICIA KABINDA" <mrsfelicia0@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:19:27 +0200
Subject: HELP.

FROM,MRS.FELICIA KABINDA
85 MONUMENT ROAD.


TEL:+27-73 775 8672


My Dear,

I am MRS.FELICIA KABINDA the wife of MR.KENNETH KABINDA (late) 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 husband 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 husband’s farms and burnt
everything in the farm, killed my husband and made away with a lot of items
in my husband’s farm.

After the death of my husband, my children and I decided to move out of
Zimbabwe because of our lives were in danger with the money that my husband
kept in his hidden safe in my house. The amount contained in the safe in my
house is US$9.5m(Nine million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) and we
decided to code the money and move 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 20% of the
total sum for helping us to move this money out of south Africa and 5% will
be mapped out for expenses both of us may incur during this transaction and
75% will be for me and my family to invest in your country. All I want is
for you to furnish me your details and your personal phone and fax numbers
and your email address for easy communication and more information. contact
my son VINCENT KABINDA (Mr.) on the above telephone ,OR e-mail:
mrsfeliciakabinda@homemail@co.za , NOTE: that this transaction is
absolutely confidential.

Thanks and God bless you.

Best Regard
MRS.FELICIA KABINDA.
(For The Family

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