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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:
  • "million 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 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.
  • +27837741631 (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.
  • patrickkhumaloa61@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "patrick khumalo" <patrickkhumaloa61@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: patrickkhumaloa9@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:20:29 +0200
Subject: FROM:PATRICK KHUMALO FOR THE FAMILY

FROM:PATRICK KHUMALO
JOHANNESBURG,SOUTH AFRICA.
Email patrickkhumaloa61@hotmail.com
Tel:+27 83-774-1631
FAX +27 1121 97338
ATTN:DEAR,

URGENT INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE / FUND TRANSFER


My name is Mr. PATRICK KHUMALO, the elder son of Mr.PETER KHUMALO of
Zimbabwe. This might be a surprise to you about where I got your contact
address. I got your address from the South African Chamber of
Commerce/Industry in Johannesburg, South Africa in my earnest search for a
reliable company or individual that can assist me in transferring this
reasonable sum of money abroad.

During the current war against the white farmers in Zimbabwe from the
supporters of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned
farmlands to his party members,war veterans and his followers, he ordered
all white farmers to surrender all farms to his party members,war veterans
and his followers. My father is One of the best farmers in our country and
because he did not support Mugabe’s ideas, Mugabe’s supporters invaded my
fathers farm and burnt everything in the farm, killing my father and made
away with a lot of items in my fathers farm.

Before his death, my father had deposited with one of the Security/Finance
Company in Johannesburg, South Africa the sum of US$25.5 MILLION UNITED
STATES DOLLARS.After the death of my father, we decided to move to the
Republic of South Africa where he had deposited the money in the Security
Company with code as “family valuables only.

So I decided to contact an oversea firm or company that will assist me to
move this money out of South Africa because as asylum seekers we are not
allowed to operate any Bank Account within South Africa.We have agreed to
offer you 25% of the total sum for your assistance, 5% will be
mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of this
transaction while 70% will be for me and my family to invest in Your
country.

All I want you to do is to furnish me with your entire personal phone and
fax numbers for easy Communication. You can contact me on the above
Telephone numbers. Note that this transaction is 100% Risk free and
absolutely confidential.

Thanks and God bless

Best Regards
PATRICK KHUMALO
FOR THE FAMILY

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