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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)
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +27826420465 (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.
  • hanahntukuzi@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: madamhanahntukuzia@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:06:33 +0200
Subject: A PLEA FOR ASSISTANCE


From: Mrs. Hanah Ntukuzi
House 3 Extension 107 Luis
Botha Street Soweto
South Africa.
Tel: +27 826 420 465

Dear sir/madam

please permit me to write you irrespective of the fact we have not met before. I come in contact with your address through a good friend of my husband who works with South African chamber of commerce when I was scouting for a reliable and interested partner who I can do business with. He suggested you as honest, trustworthy and an astitute businessman with whom one can do business with. Although I did not disclose the nature of business I intend to do with you to him due to the nature of this business.

I am Mrs. Hanah Ntukuzi wife of late Mr. Richard Ntukuzi who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people.
I got your contact from South African chamber of commerce when I was searching for a reliable and honest person to transact this business with.

I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party- president Robert Mugabe. Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to disposes the land being occupied by white farmers.

This action has led to the killing of some members of opposition party including my husband who did not support this ill-fated action. But before the death of my husband he deposited the sum of USD$6.4 M in a safe box in a private security company in Johannesburg South Africa, as a treasure box fully documented in our only son’s name (Mr. David Ntukuzi
) with the intention of using it to open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our neighboring country (Swaziland) after his university education.

On the 29th of July, 2001, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed my husband to death. Since then they have been terrorizing my family but I and my son managed to escape to South Africa where we are now living as a political asylum seeker (refugee) but the financial laws of South Africa do not permit us financial rights to such a huge amount of money.
In view of this, I cannot invest this fund in South Africa hence I solicit for your assistant to help us transfer the fund to your overseas account for any investment which you will advice us.

I am prepared to give you 20% of the money for your assistance, 10% will be for any expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while the remaining 70% will be for our investment in your country.
Upon your immediate response, I will immediately arrange and send you all the information that will empower your smooth transaction with the security company in South Africa, I will also send to you the depositary documents of the fund.

Remember to include your direct telephone and fax number in your next mail so I will call you for more confidential discussion. Please treat this transaction with absolute confidentiality.
You can as well read more about the crises in my country and about this situation on the following sites:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html

Yours sincerely

Mrs. Hanah Ntukuzi

Note, You can also contact me on this email, hanahntukuzi@yahoo.com

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