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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "might come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "mark ndovo" <mark_ndovo9002@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:49:54 +0100
Subject: PLEASE HELP MY FAMILY

NO.10 ANDERSON STREET MANDELA CRESENT
JOHANNESBURG 2001.
TEL+ 27-84 70 69 479
Dear Sir,

My name is MARK NDOVO eldeset son of Mr.BENSON NDOVO from Zimbabwe. This
might come to you as a surprise aboutwhere I got your contact address. I got
your address from the South African Chamber of Commerce in Johannesburg,
South Africa.
During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporters
of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his
party members and his followers, he
ordered all white farmers to surrender all their farms to his party members
and his followers.

My father was one of the best farmers in our country and because he did not
support Mugabe's ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded my father's farm and
burnt everything in the farm, killing my father and made away with a lot of
items in my father's farm.
Before his death, my father had deposited with one of the Security Company
in Johannesburg, South Africa the sum of US$10Ten Million, United States
Dollars).with my name and made every documents with my name both the
certificate of depository. Then 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 as family valuables.

So, I decided to contact you to assist me to transfer 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 20% 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 and 75% will be for me and
my family to invest in your country.

All I want you to do is to contact me on the above Telephone number. Note
that this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely confidential.
Thanks and God bless as I await your reply.
Best Regards,

MARK NDOVO
(For the Family).

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