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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:
  • "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)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • vuthambo1431@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Vusi Thambo <vuthambo161@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:23:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: LET'S DO IT


FROM: Mr Vusi Thambo


Greetings,

I hope that you are well today. I am a Manager in ABSA bank of South Africa. With due respect, I decided to contact you over this business financial transaction worth the sum of FIVE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($ 5,200,000.00) in other to entrust this fund into your bank account.

This is an ABANDONED FUND, which I found out to belongs to one of our customers, ANDREAS SCHRANNER (German) who died along with his entire family on 25th July 2000 in a plane crash disaster, I was very fortune to meet the deceased file when I was arranging the old and abandoned customers file of 2000-2006 in other to submit to the management accordingly for documentation purposes.
Following the South African banking policy, it was obviously indicated and signed lawfully that if such Funds remains unclaimed after 3 (three) years without somebody been a foreigner apply and claim the Fund as the next of kin, the Fund will be transferred into the Government Treasury as an unclaimed.

This will cause other staff of my bank to notice that the owner of the Fund has died. So the request of you as a foreigner is necessarily needed for the claim because a citizen of South Africa cannot come forward to claim this Fund since the law does not pave a way for an indigene to claim such fund.
Since the real beneficiary of the fund died, my company is expecting the next of kin to apply for the release of this fund for him or her without delay, but unfortunately I learnt through the investigations which I carried out that there is nobody behind who can come and claim the fund, I need you to act fast so that we do not loose this once-in-a-life-time- opportunity.

You shall provide me with your details so that you and I can claim this money, so that we can raise an affidavit of fact that you are the beneficiary of this fund in order for us to move it to your bank account where it will be comfortable for you and me.

SIXTY FIVE PERCENT (65%) of the total fund will be for me. THIRTY PERCENT (30%) for you for all your efforts. five PERCENT (5%) will be for unexpected expenses, which may occur during the process, thereafter you will help me to visit your country for sharing the money according to the percentage indicated above.

For the immediate transfer of this fund into your bank account as arranged, please note that you should keep this business secret until you confirm the transfer into the bank account which you will provide, and there is NO RISK in this business. All necessary documents related to this and which will prove that you made a legal claim of inheritance shall be provided. Please view details of the plane crash on the website below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

It is true that I prayed before I was pushed forward to contact you for this business but I want you to also assure me solemnly that you are a trustworthy, reliable, honest and capable to avoid cheating me in this business.
If you are really sure of your integrity, reply me for my alternative email box (vuthambo1431@yahoo.com) If yo are interested get back to me so i will give you details on how things is to go.
Yours faithfully,

Mr Vusi Thambo


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