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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)
  • "is 100% risk-free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • williammbuse_2005@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "william mbuse" <williammbuse_2005@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:47:57 +0000
Subject: REQUESTING FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE

FROM: William Mbuse
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG
williammbuse_2005@hotmail.com
Tel 27-78-336-9998


REQUESTING FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE

Dear Sir/Madam

My name is William Mbuse, the elder son of Mr. Ben Mbuse of Zimbabwe.
This might be a surprise to you about where 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 supports 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 is 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$20 Million (Twenty Million
United States Dollars). 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 valuables.

So I decided to contact overseas firm and companies that will assist me to
move 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 furnish me with your entire personal phone and
fax numbers for easy
communication. Note that this transaction is 100% risk-free and absolutely
confidential.

Thanks and God bless.

Regards,

William Mbuse

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