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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:
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • engineer_kebbi_zanna@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ENGR, KEBBI ZANNA" <engineer_kebbi_zanna@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:46:09 +0400
Subject: BUSINESSS PROPOSAL STRICTLY CONFIDENCIAL


ENGR, KEBBI ZANNA
SOUTH AFRICA(CAPE TOWN)
EMAIL;engineer_kebbi_zanna@yahoo.co.uk
Dearest one
BUSINESSS PROPOSAL STRICTLY CONFIDENCIAL
Your contacts comes to me through a friend who does business between your country and south Africa.But i was careful not to reveal to him why i needed a competent foreign link in the person of your respected self
In short, iam a trained chemist specializing in currency chemistry and top official in the south african security and printing and minting limited in Cape Town.Durring the last politcal dispensation in S.Africa in (2005__2006)i was hired and involved in the chemical reconversion of otherwise genuine United State Dollars Bills brought into S.Africa under hidden circumstances by power Arab National who were out to give financial support to a moslem former presidentail aspirant,this was with the tacit connivance of the military government.
Now in the heart that followed the political crisis and the subsequent voilence of the elections,the former moslem presidential aspirant life was lost with the result that some package containing a box of (Ten million united state dollars)10 million u.s dollars,awaiting reconversion,were abandoned in my care and custody.
As a result of the nature of the reconversion exercise,which in fact known only to me,I now have in my exclusive control 10 million U.S.dollars bill cash presently in the form of bonded retractable negative 267.03 mint stage,deliberately defaced to elude detection and facilitate their importantion into S.Africa.The bill now require only chemical reconversion to grate A1 125 neon proof mint stage and subsequent movement outside South Africa for choice investments preferebly in your country.
After successfully reconverting the dollars bill by chemical process,and in the event that you accept to work with me,you shall have 40% of this funds and another 5% shall be set aside for expenses,while the remainder of 55% shall be fore me .Finally,it is important to keep the facts of the exercise to your self,the way i have done all these months.You most agree with me,that we cannot miss up a chance of a life time investment or riches,because we cannot be joking over a matter that would definately work to our best satisfaction
Please if you are interested for us to invest this money in your country,kindly send to me your full name,private phone number, so that the box can be delivered to you there emmediately by the help of diplomatic service.before my arrival.
I await your urgent response,while i remain with best regards for your kind
attention
Thanks,God Bless You.
sincerely yours
ENGR,KEBBI ZANNA

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