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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • +27768947779 (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.
  • georgeadams10@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "george adams" <georgeadams10@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:13:17 +0200
Subject: respond urgently please

FROM PRINCE GEORGE SITHOLE ADAMS
Email;georgeadams10@hotmail.com
Phone;+27-768-947-779


DEAR SIR,

TRANSFER ASSISTANCE AND INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

YOU MAY BE SURPRISED TO RECEIVE THIS LETTER FROM ME, SINCE YOU DO NOT KNOW
ME PERSONALY. I AM PRINCE GERGE SITHOLE ADAMSTHE FIRST SON OF CHIEF DAN
SITHOLE, WHO WAS RECENTLY MURDERED IN THE COURSE OF THE LAND DISPUTE IN
ZIMBABWE. I GOT YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION FROM A DIRECTORY IN SOUTH AFRICAN
TRADE AND INFORMATION IN JOHANNESBURG HENCE I DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU.

BEFORE THE DEATH OF MY FATHER, HE HAD TAKEN ME TO JOHANNESBURG TO DEPOSIT
THE SUM OF SIXTEEN MILLION,SEVEN HUNDRED AND FITY SIX THOUSAND
usd${$16m,756,000.00)ONLY IN A PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANY HERE IN
JOHANNSEBURG, AS IF HE FORESAW THE LOOMING DANGER IN ZIMBABWE. THIS MONEY
WAS DEPOSITED AS GEM STONES TO AVOID MUCH TAX FROM THE SECURITY COMPANY. MY
FATHER'S INITIAL PLAN WAS TO USE THIS MONEY FOR THE PURCHASE OF NEW
MACHINERY, EQUIMENTS AND CHEMICALS FOR THE FARMS AND ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW
FARM IN RELATIVELY POLITICALY/ECONOMICALLY STABLE SWAZILAND. AS YOU MAY
ALREADY KNOW,IT ALL BEGAN WHEN THIS EVIL DICTATOR PRESIDENT, MR. ROBERT
MUGABE INTRODUCED THE OBNOXIOUS NEW LAND REFORM ACT WHICH WHOLLY AFFECTED
THE RICH WHITE FARMERS AND SOME FEW RICH BLACK FARMERS. IN FACT A LOT OF
PEOPLE WERE KILLED BECAUSE OF THIS LAND REFORM OF WHICH MY LOVELY FATHER WAS
ONE OF THE VICTIMS. MY FATHER'S ACCOUNTS AND ASSETS WERE AS WELL FROZEN BY
THIS EVIL PRESIDENT ALL BECAUSE MY FATHER OPPOSED HIS EVIL POLITICAL
STRATEGIES.THE ONLY THING LEFT NOW OF ALL MY FATHER'S LEGACY IS THIS MONEY
IN THE SECURITY COMPANY WHICH LUCKILY TO US HIS CHILDREN,MR.MUGABE DOESN'T
KNOW ABOUT TILL DATE.IT IS ON THIS BACKGROUND THAT I AND MY FAMILY WHO ARE
CURRENTLY RESIDING IN SOUTH AFRICA AS POLITICAL ASYLUM SEEKERS DECIDED TO
TRANSFER MY THE MONEY TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY SINCE THE LAW OF SOUTH AFRICA
PROHIBITS REFUGEES/ ASSYLUM SEEKERS LIKE US FROM OPERATING A BANK ACCOUNT OR
GETTING INVOLVED IN HUGE FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS. AS THE ELDEST SON OF MY
FATHER, I AM SADDLED WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SEEKING A GENIUNE FOREIGN
ACCOUNT WHERE THIS MONEY COULD BE TRANSFERRED INTO WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF
MY GOVERNMENT WHO IS BENT ON TAKING EVERYTHING.


ALL I SEEK FOR RIGHT NOW IS AN HONEST BUSINESSMAN OR WOMAN WHO HAVE GREAT
PITY FOR THE DISPLACED AND DISTRESSED,WHOM I CAN PLACE MY FUTURE AND THAT OF
MY FAMILY UNTO HIS OR HER HANDS. THIS TRNSACTION IS 100% RISK FREE. IF YOU
ACCEPT TO ASSIST ME AND MY FAMILY, ALL I WANT FROM YOU IS FOR YOU TO MAKE
ARRANGMENT AND COME TO SOUTH AFRICA, SO THAT YOU CAN OPEN A NON-RESIDENT
FOREIGNER DOLLAR ACCOUNT IN YOUR NAME WHICH WILL AID US IN TRANSFERRING THE
MONEY TO ANY ACCOUNT YOU WILL NOMINATE OVERSEAS. I INTEND TO USE THIS MONEY
FOR INVESTMENT IN YOUR COUNTRY. I HAVE TWO OPTIONS FOR YOU, FIRSTLY YOU CAN
CHOOSE TO HAVE CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF THE MONEY FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE AND ALSO
FOR NOMINATING YOUR ACCOUNT IN THIS TRANSACTION, OR YOU CAN GO INTO
PARTNERSHIP WITH ME FOR THE PROPER PROFITABLE INVESTMENT OF THE MONEY IN
YOUR COUNTRY. WHICH EVER OPTION YOU WANT, FEEL FREE TO NOTIFY ME. I HAVE
ALSO MAPPED OUT 10% OF THIS MONEY FOR ANY EXPENSES THAT WE MIGHT INCURE IN
THE PROCESS OF THIS TRANSACTION. IF YOU DO NOT PREFER A PARTNERSHIP I AM
WILLING TO GIVE YOU 20% OF THE MONEY WHILE THE REMAINING 70% WILL REMAIN FOR
ME AND MY FAMILY. IF YOU ARE REALLY READY, CAPABLE AND WILLING TO ASSIST ME,
PLEASE CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY WITH THE ABOVE TELEPHONE NUMBERS. PLEASE KEEP
THIS MESSAGE VERY CONFIDENTIAL.

I EXPECT YOUR RESPONSE SOONEST.

BEST REGARDS AND MAY GOD {ALLAH} BLESS YOU.
PRINCE GEORGE SITHOLE ADAMS
FOR MY FAMILY

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