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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:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +27734630283 (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.
  • dpaa2006@webmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Daniels Mbalula" <dpaa15@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: dan_mbalula@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:22:44 +0200
Subject: NEPAD Head Office


Daniels Mbalula
NEPAD Head Office
Sanlam Center
Johannesburg
+27-73-463-0283

Attention: CEO/Managing Director

I am Mr. Dan Mbalula, the Head of Operations Unit; Diamond Producers of Africa (DPA) under The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).I requests your co-operation in this confidential project of cash money amounting to total sum of Thirty-Two Million but we will first move out Twelve Million into your facility before the remaining Twenty Million.

My colleague and I secured this fund during the course of our duty in the case of Six Hundred-Million Dollars Conflict Diamond in Angola, The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sierra Leone and Liberia. Our duty covers many financial activities/responsibility. Due to our sensitive position and civil code of conduct, which does not allow us to own or operate foreign bank accounts and many other rigorously benchmark, we seek your cooperation in this deal to externalize this fund.

We will provide you with the necessary logistics for this project if you are interested in this deal, please reply to my personal mailbox: dpaa2006@webmail.co.za, I will give you all the documentations including details for the transaction. I want to assure/guarantee you that this deal has been structured for a hitch free and successful transaction without any risk. The fund is not a governmental fund and untraceable by any persons. This transaction will be structured with legal documentation to cover the fund; met with all international regulations regarding fund transfer.

Finally, I will give you a quarter of the total sum as your commission for your corporation. While I waits for your reply along with your details.

Yours sincerely.

Dan Mbalula

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