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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • +27733636291 (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.
  • stevepedro30@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "steve pedro" <gloriapedro@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:54:16 +0100
Subject: URGENT FUND TRANSFER ASSISTANCE

FROM : MRS GLORIA PEDRO
ADDRESS : NO. 12 JOHN AVENUE
HARARE, ZIMBABWE
TEL : +27-73-36-36-291
E Mail = stevepedro30@hotmail.com

Dear Sir / Madam,




This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial, as a matter of
urgency I am desperately looking for a foreign partner whom I can trust to
handle some investment or fund movement. I am MRS. GLORIA PEDRO JOHN wife
of late DR. JOHN PEDRO who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and
irate black people. I am writing from Zimbabwe, i got your address from the
Internet through the consultancy directory during my search for a reliable
and honest person to transact this business with. i write to solicit for
your special assistance to a family shattered by a government led by a
dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party President Robert Mugabe.

Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly
sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to dispossess the
land being occupied by white farmers. The action has led to the killing of
some members of opposition party including my husband JOHN PEDRO , who did
not support this ill-fated action. But before the death of my husband, he
anticipated some dangers and so he deposited the sum of US $ 25.5 Million
(Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in the
of name of only son “STEVE PEDRO ” at a reputable security company in South
Africa with the intention of using to open fertilizer manufacturing company
among other companies in our neighbouring country (Swaziland) after his
University education.

On 29th of July 2001 the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF)
ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him (my husband) to death.
Since then, they have been terrorising my only son, STEVE PEDRO , but he
managed to escape to a neighbouring country, South Africa as a political
asylum seeker (refugee). But his position in South Africa does not permit
him to open an account to run any huge financial business. That is why i
want this fund to be transferred into your private account so that you will
assist him to invest it in your country. Hence, if you agree to assist us,
we will offer you 30 % of the money for your assistance, 10% will be for the
possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 60 %
will be for our family investment in your country through your assistance
and note that hits business is 100% risk free.

NOTE : On your response and interest, you shall be introduced to the
international business law firm based here in Johannesburg South Africa who
assisted my late husband in depositing of this fund at the security company
for any query / demand for due clarifications.

Contact my son STEVE PEDRO on his direct telephone 27-73-36 -36=291 for more
details.

I need your urgent and confidential response.

Best regards,


GLORIA PEDRO (MRS)
FOR THE FAMILY


PLEASE YOU CAN READ ABOUT PROBLEMS IN ZIMBABWE FROM
THE LINKS BELOW.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm

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