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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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)
  • "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)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • williamskab3@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: williamskab3@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 06:27:17 +0200
Subject: business proposal

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION

ATTN: Dear
sir/madam

I am interested in your partnership in a business deal. This
business
proposal I wish to intimate you with is
of mutual benefit and
its success is entirely based on mutual trust,
cooperation and a high
level of
confidentiality as regard this transaction.

I am
representing the board of contract review and monitoring committee of
south africa Consolidated Copper
Mines (SACCM). I am seeking your assistance
to enable
me transfer the sum of US$45,500,000.00 (Forty five Million,
Five Hundred
Thousand United States
Dollars) into your private/company
account. The fund came
about as a result of a contract awarded and
executed for and on behalf of my
Ministry. The contract was
supposed
to be awarded to two foreign contractors to
the tune of
US$180,000,000.00 (One hundred and Eighty Million United States
Dollars). But in the course of negotiation, the contract was awarded
to a Bulgarian
Contractor at the cost of US$134,500,000.00 (One hundred
and Thirty four
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
to my benefit
unknown to the contractor. Thiscontract has been
satisfactorily executed and inspected as the Bulgarian firm is
presently
securing payment from my Ministry, where our Board is in-
charge of
all foreign contract payment approval.

As a civil servant
still in active government service, I am forbidden by law
to operate an
account outside the shores of south africa.
Hence this message to you
seeking your assistance so
as to enable me present your
private/company account details as
a beneficiary of contractual
claimsand have the funds release to you.

On actualisation, the fund
will be disbursed as
Stated below:

1. 30% of the fund will be for you
as beneficiary

2. 70% of the fund will be for us.

All logistics are
in place and all modalities worked out for a smooth
actualisation of
the transaction within
the next few working days of commencement. For
further details as to the
workability of this transaction,
please
reach me as soon as possible for further clarification. I am
currently
in Europe for a senior management course and most
importantly to
finalize this transaction. Detailswill be revealed upon the
receipt of
your mail.

Please, email me on receipt of this mail at:
williamskab3@yahoo.co.uk

Thank you and God bless as I await your urgent
response.
Yours Sincerely,

williams kumalo
E-mail- williamskab3@yahoo.co.uk

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