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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)
  • "keep it confidential" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • +27732444249 (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.
  • mark_williams0012002@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mark_williams0012002@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:18:13 +0200
Subject: FROM: PASTOR MARK WILLIAMS

FROM: PASTOR MARK WILLIAMS
11 KOTZE STREET,
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: +27 73 244 4249.
E-MAIL: mark_williams0012002@yahoo.co.uk


Dear Sir/ Madam,

Greetings in Jesus Name Amen!

I am Pastor Mark Williams, the first son of Late Lufuno Williams. I am a citizen of Swaziland. My father was
the managing director of Lufuno Aluminium Company in Swaziland but very unfortunately he died in the year 2003
after a protracted illness.Due to poor management of the company in my country and for the factthat I am so
dedicated to church activities, I realized that I will be unable to manage the company and so soon it may wind up .
I also realized that I am too young to manage a large company of that type and most of the directors have already began
to divert the net profit being generated from the company, I therefore arranged with my father's lawyer and sold the
entire company to Mr. Alan Foster from Poland at the price of US$22,600,000 (Twenty Two million, Six Hundred Thousand Dollars.
Due to constant pressure from some of my relatives and also fear of likely attack on my family to hijack the
fund, I arranged with my mother to transfer the fund into a security company in Johannesburg, South Africa
where I am currently staying with my mother and other two younger sisters.

However, I am into pastorial activities now and I have most of my time dedicated to church activities. At the moment, we want
to transfer the fund to oversea country for investment because there is no good investment atmosphere here in
South Africa.I therefore need your assistance to enable me transfer the fund into your private/company 's account over there
so that we can relocate to plan for the investment of the fund through your personal assistance.

I mostly need your assistance in investing the fund because I have little experience of investment /management of the fund.
It is also my plan that after the successful transfer of the fund into your account there, I will first relocate my
mother and other 2 sisters to stay with you while I will first travel to United States of America to complete my theological
school. What I mostly need from you is honest and sincerity because this fund is my life and the life of my family.

If you can assist us in this transaction, I will give you 25% of the total,5% for any expenses that might comes out in respect
of this transaction .And while 70% will remain in your account for 2 years to enable me complete my school and then join my other
relatives to plan for our family investments. Please, be assured that this transaction is 100% risk free, but you must keep it confidential.


Please remember as I said you are not going to spend any money on this transaction till my fund hitch your account.
If you can assist us, kindly call and send me an urgent email to indicate your interest.

I await your soonest response.

Your in His Vineyard,

Pastor Mark Williams.

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