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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:

• 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.
  • +27839615534 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "solomon oti" <patombe@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:12:20 +0200
Subject: FROM MR PATRICK MUZAMBA (REPLY URGENT)


Good Day

Dear VICTIMNAME

Compliment of the day,

I receive your mail and your content was well understood concerning your
first question? All I need from you is to help me to transfer this fund into
your business account project for life investment venture,

Why I don’t want to choose a local person here in South Africa because of
our popularity at home we intend to keep ourselves to a very low profile in
such a way nobody will notice us until we finials the transaction.

Secondly we are not comfortable to deal with a local person here because we
are foreigner in this land as refugee also dealing with a local person here
might even kill us just because of the funds. So please kindly understand my
point because all our entire hope depends on this fund, beside we have a lot
of relatives that depend on us for their living.

Furthermore, all the arrangement has being concluded with a top banker
official who is working in the bank here in South Africa and he promised to
use his good position to commence the transfer without your present here in
South Africa.

Also I would like you to reply me urgent so that I can explain to you in
details regards the conclusion of the transaction and I keep everything
within me since we arriver here in south Africa so do follow us with the
same faith as we are,

Kindly call me as soon as you received my mail because I will be waiting for
your call for other discussion. +27-839-615-534

Extend my greeting to your family I hope to see them soon

Yours faithfully,

MR PATRICK AND JOY MUZAMBA.

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