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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:
  • "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.
  • +27733686893 (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.
  • johnwalterzsa1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "John Walter" <johnwalterz6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnwalterzsa1@myway.com
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:18:30 +0000
Subject: Urgent reply is needed

                                               

                               DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL AND ENERGY          

                                     REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA  

                                  E-MAIL: johnwalterzsa1@yahoo.com    

                                         TEL:+ 27 73 368 6893

                                          

 

 

                                        

Hello,

 

I wish to introduce myself, my name is Mr.John Walter . I am a mine, economist in the department of minerals and energy in the Republic of South Africa.

 

I am interested in doing business with you in the way of an investment in your country, my position in the department of minerals and energy in the Republic of South Africa is to ensure that all mining business venture are evaluated on the basis of sound, technical and factual information and that regulatory costs can be and are planned to be viably internalized in actual cash flows, thorough economic assessment of prospecting application.

 

I wish to inform you that some time last year the department of minerals and energy identified the need to up grade some old mine for safety and productive proposes and the sum of ($ 12,000 000.00) twelve million dollars was budgeted in order to achieve this aim. But due to a long ancestral land dispute in the areas that this mines are located this project was suspended indefinetely with the funds still under my control with the influence of some officials. I wish  to invest this money with a prospectective investor out side South Africa with the assurance of good return of investment .

 

I have also made arrangements with security officials on how to get the money out of South Africa. Please, you can contact me only through the above telephone numbers and e-mail address, for as you can see this transaction will be profitable between you and I and I will also want to know what the returns of this investment will be. This transaction is 100% risk free so you need not to entertain any fear.

 

You are to take twenty percent (20%) of the total sum for your assistance, five percent (5%) to take care of all expenses incurred during the transaction, while the remaining will be for my investments in your country.

 

You can also get intouch with me via my alternative email account below.

johnwalterzsa1@yahoo.com

 

I sincerely look forward to hear from you.

 

Best regards,

Mr. John Walter

                                         

 

 

                                

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