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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.
• 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.
  • +27763267690 (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.
  • musamark999@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MUSA MARK" <m_mark08@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:19:38 +0000
Subject: THIS PROPOSAL IS CONFIDENTIAL.

FROM MUSA MARK
ADDRESS NO 19 MADALA AVENUE
TWISST STREET JOHNNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA

TELL + 27 763-267-690
Email-musamark999@yahoo.co.uk 
                                                                 
                                     THIS PROPOSAL IS CONFIDENTIAL.

Dear;Friend

I am Mr. MUSA MARK I got you contact courtesy of South Africa network-on-line at the South African chamber of commerce. During the war waged against the farmers in Zimbabwe,

 

I have been in charge of my father’s estate worth $60,000,000.00 since he was killed and mother left paralyzed on the 25th of November 2002 by agents of the state targeting opposition party financiers in Zimbabwe. They thereafter forced us to go into hiding in South Africa as asylum seekers.

 

The estate include fiscal cash of $10, 000,000.00, TEN MILLION DOLLARS) which is part of proceeds from sale of our inherited grand father’s tobacco Business, our own horse farm, car garage and fast food franchise, all in Zimbabwe, others are Estate properties and shares in a multi-national company in two countries in Europe.

 

We seek better living conditions and improved health care for my mother overseas as we are not getting them here being prohibited immigrants. Terms of your reward will be discussed between you and our lawyer should you decide to help us relocate to your country. I am MUSA MARK from Zimbabwe. Contact me for a more elucidated

explanation.

 

Your sincerely,

 

Best regard

MUSA MARK

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