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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)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• 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.
  • +27766963888 (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.
  • susandmss@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "susan shabangu" <susandmss17@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: susandmss1@yahoo.es
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:39:07 +0000
Subject: Urgent reply is needed

FROM MRS. SUSAN SHABANGU
DEPUTY MINISTER OF SAFATY & SECURITY

SOUTH AFRICA  +27-76-696-3888 

 

Good Day,

First, let me start by introducing myself as MRS SUSAN SHABANGU, a mother of three children and the Deputy Minister of Safety and Security since 29th April 1996 to date under the auspices of the President of South Africa MR THABO MBEKI. After due deliberation with my children, I decided to contact you for your assistance in standing as a beneficiary to the sum of US$30.5M ( Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) You can view my profile at my (website by clicking ( www.gov.za ) and clicking on contact information , then click on Deputy Ministries, click on Safety & Security, then click on Ms Susan Shabangu  and read about me.

 

THE PROPOSAL.

 

After the swearing in ceremony making me the Deputy Minister of Safety and Security, my husband Mr. Ndebele Shabangu died while he was on an official trip to Trinidad and Tobago in 1996. After his death, I discovered that he had some funds in a dollar account which amounted to the sum of US$30.5M with a security and finance institution in South Africa of which I will divulge information to you when I get your full consent and support to go for a change of beneficiary and subsequent transfer of the funds into a comfortable and conducive account of your choice.

This fund emanated as a result of an over-invoiced contract which he executed with the Government of South Africa. Though I assisted him in getting this contract but I never knew that it was over-invoiced by him. I am afraid that the government of South Africa might start to investigate on contracts awarded from 1990 to date. If they discover this money in his bank account, they will confiscate it and seize his assets here in South Africa and this will definitely affect my political career in government.

 

I want your assistance in opening an account with bankers through my banker so that this fund could be wired into your account directly without any hitch. I am offering you 20% of the total sum which amounts to US$6,100.000.00 (Six million One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) and 5% will be for any expenses that both of us may Incure in this transaction and another 5% will go for Motherless babies homes.

 

However, you have to assure me and also be ready to go into agreement with me that you will not elope with my fund. If you agree to my terms, kindly as a matter of urgency send me an email. susandmss@yahoo.com if you want to speak with my Banker or my eldest son, that is fine and okay by me. You can contact my son on his direct line (+27-73 368-6893) or any time you want to speak with me then I will give you my private numbers so that we can talk more about the transfer.

 

Moreover the name of my son is {Mr steven  shabangu} Please I do not need to remind you of the need for absolute Confidentiality of this transaction.

 

My regards to your family.

MRS.SUSAN SHABANGU
DEPUTY MINISTER OF SOUTH AFRICA
+27-76-696-3888

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