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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• This email message is a "Zimbabwe" scam.
• 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.
  • pascalcole@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: pascal cole <pascole@pascole.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:26:19 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: HELLO FRIEND


HELLO FRIEND
Dear Sir,
How are you and your family today? I hope that you are all okay? I found information about you and decided to contact you for an important assistance. I am Pascal Cole a citizen of Zimbabwe , but i am contacting from you REPUBLIC OF BENIN where i am now seeking for political asylum with my only sister Jane. I am the only son of Mbanwi Cole, a wealthy farmer and senior politician with the opposition political party in my country, Movement for Democratic Change [MDC]. My father was murdered by our wicked President, Robert Mugabe and I fled my country because I have become his next target to eliminate. Before the incident, my Father deposited the sum of 7.5 million U.S dollars cash in a Security Company in my name.
I am with all the documents that covers the fund and as an asylum seeker, it is not in my legal capacity to put up claims to this fund. This is why I need your assistance to act as my late father’s foreign partner to put up claims to this fund.I will forward to you all the documents that cover this fund and more details about it.
We will offer you 25% of the fund for your assistance and efforts while 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that we may incurred during this transaction.If interested and capable to assist me in this transaction, please get back to me
immediately.You are to send me your telephone and fax number.
I look forward to a favorable response from you through my email or telephone
contacts below.
E-mail: pascalcole@netscape.net
Best regards,
Mr.Pascal Cole

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