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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk boxes" (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)
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • petwillia@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "pete williams" <pete---rwilliams8@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: petwillia@myway.com
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:36:02 +0100
Subject: From Peter Williams

I want you to patiently read this offer.

for security reasons please reply to:

Email:petwillia@myway.com

Due to my careful search for an honest, reliable and sincere business
partner, I got your contact,and i ask if you can be trusted not to break an
agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my mind to contact you and to
offer you this proposal of mine of which my whole life depends on. My name
is Peter Williams, the son of Late Jenni Williams, the spokeperson of CFU
"Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe" please go through this link
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/06/24/zimbabwe.farmers/index.html,
During the crises against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supports of
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
farms to his party members and his followers. My father is One of the most
successful multy farmers in our country, managed by himself and my mother
and because he did not support Mugabe ideas, Mugabes supporters invaded his
farm and burnt everything in the farm, killing him and made away with a lot
of items in my fathers farm in the process.
Before his death, my father had deposited with a SECURITY AND FINANCE HOUSE
IN SOUTH AFRICA the sum of (USD $60 MILLION). He informed me about the
security company and the money before his death, he told me that the money
was statched into two trunk boxes and deposited at the security company. He
told me that the security company officials do not know the true content of
the two trunk boxes because it was declared as classified personal effected.
Based on the invitation of farmers to Kwara state Nigeria "see link :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4247993.stm" I decided to move in there
with my mother and sister, hoping that one day I would be able to claim the
money from the finance house n South Africa. After several efforts I was
unable to claim the consignment because the secret services of president
Robert Mugabe have found out the money and they are bent on ensuring that we
do not near South Africa. Since we were unable to fulfill the requirement of
the Nigerian Government, we decided to seek for asylum.
As we are now, my mother and sister are still stranded in Africa and the
only means of their livelyhood is by working as labourers in the New mega
farms out here in Kwara state Nigeria.I am begging for your help because
without this money we will remain refugees and therefore be feeding from
hand to mouth. I was lucky to have found myself here in the United Kingdom
through the help of a non-Government organization, there was only one space
and my parents decided I should go.
I want you to help us claim the boxes of money from the security company so
that we can start a new life again.
If you are interested in helping us, we shall give you 30% of the total sum
and you should provide the following information:
1. Your full names
2. Your address
3. Your private telephone and fax numbers.
Immediately the above information, I shall send to you the certificate of
deposit and more information on how you are to claim the boxes from the
security company.
Sincerely Yours,
Peter Williams .

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