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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:
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +27836888338 (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.
  • bordergezifamily@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Rosemary Gezi" <rosemarygezi008@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: bordergezifamily@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:56:26 +0200
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE FOR THE FAMILY

From: Mr. Benson Border Gezi
Tel: +27-83-688-8338
Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dear Sir.

URGENT ASSISTANCE FOR THE FAMILY

Please do not be embarrassed to receive this mail especially since we don’t
know each other or meet in person before. I was opportune to have your
esteemed particulars from South Africa Information Exchange (S.A.I.E.), in
my search for a reliable person to handle a very confidential transaction,
which involve a transfer of fund to a foreign account.

My concern has centered on how I could transfer my late father’s money
amounting to US$25.5 Million (Twenty-Five Million Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) out of South Africa for a better investment abroad. I
am MR BENSON BORDER GEZI, the son of comrade Border Gezi. My father was the
former Zimbabwean Minister for youth, gender and Employment creation. While
alive, my father stood against seizure of white farms and the distribution
of it to the blacks without compensation to the white owners. I would like
you to visit the web pages to read more about the story of my late father.

www.Mweb.co.zw/standard/index.php?id=2908&pubdate=2001-04-29
www.dailynews.co.zw/daily/2001/December/December4/3891.htm1

Because of my father’s sincerity, he was killed by a planned motor accident
along Harare-Masvingo Road near Mvuma Province of Zimbabwe. Before his
untimely death, my father told me some few weeks earlier that he kept one
diplomatic box with a private finance and Security Company in Johannesburg,
South Africa which contains US$25.5 Million (Twenty-Five Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). He warned that he only declared the
contents of the diplomatic box to the Security Company as a family treasure/
values, with insurance values of the said amount. He also told me that he
used my name as the beneficiary of this money being his first child. The
original document that shows the Deed of lodge, Proof of Deposit, and
Depository Agreement between my late father and the Management of the
Security Company was kept with the reputable South African Lawyer. Because
of South African Financial Law, which bared asylum seeker/ refugee like me
to operate an account that exceed US$1000 and fear of the amount involved, I
decided to write to you to seek your help for this money to be transferred
into your company’s or personal bank account while all arrangement for a
hitch free transfer have been fully taken care of.

Please indicate your private phone and fax numbers, which will allow an easy
flow of communication before or after sending the money into your account. I
want to assure you also that this transaction is 100% risk free. As for your
reward for this kind assistance, my family and I are ready to offer you 20%
of the total sum while 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred in the
course of the transaction.

If you are willing to help me, please try as soon as possible to get back to
me through the above private telephone and fax numbers. Please, I do hope
that this money will be safe when finally transferred into your account. I
do hope of establishing a good relationship with you and your family after
this transaction. Please for confidential reasons, I urge you to reply me on
this private e-mail address. (bordergezifamily@hotmail.com). God bless you.

Best regards,

MR. BENSON BORDER GEZI.

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