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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +27724496758 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Mark Zuma <markzm040@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <markzuma@myway.com>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 12:12:33 +0100
Subject: FROM MR. MARK ZUMA



FROM MR. MARK ZUMA15 A Louis Botha Avenue,Fellside Cape Town, Republic of South Africa.Phone : +27 72 449 6758 {THIS IS URGENT FROM SOUTH AFRICA} Attn, RE: TRANSFER OF US $30 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT. I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business. Though, this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest medium of communication. However, this correspondence is official and private, and it should be treated as such. At first I will like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and trouble free to both parties. My name is Mr. Mark Zuma, I work as the operational manager in account management section in charge of credit and foreign bills of one of a prime banks here in South Africa. On a routine inspection I discovered a dormant domiciliary account with a Balance Of US$30,000. 00 (Thirty Million U.S dollars only}. The account holder[The deceased] was believed to be incharge of formal Iraqi President Saddam Hussein secret CRUDE OIL transactions in Africa before his death. On further discreet investigation, I also discovered that the account holder has died long ago with his family on a fatal Auto-accident leaving no beneficiary to the account and no other person knows about this account. I am in close contact with the manager of the bank here who is my partner and he is willing to approve the transfer to any reliable and trustworthy foreigner with foreign bank account because the former operator of the a/c is a foreigner. I am certainly sure that he has no writen or oral WILL attached to the account , no beneficiary and nobody will come again for the claim of this money. It is only a foreigner who can claim this money with legal claims to the account holder which I will provide to you if you are interested, therefore I need your cooperation in this transaction. This money will remain useless in this dormant account if I did not transfer the fund out to a foreign account. I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to claim this money. I only need your cooperation as a foreigner to provide your safe bank account information for the transfer. All arrangement that will ensure a smooth transfer of the fund to the account which you are to nominate is already in place. You should provide me with your correct account information for the transfer and your direct cell phone lines for easy communication. I wish for utmost confidentiality in handling this transaction. At the conclussion of this transaction, your share will be 30% of the total transfer sum, 65% for me and my partner while 5% will be set aside for any expenses both parties might incure during the process of the transfer. The fund will be transferred to your account in two parts. I will first transfer USD 15 Million to your account as a test transfer. I will fly over to meet you after the successful transfer for sharing according to the agreed percentages. I will have the remaining balance of USD 15 Million transferred to your account only after the successful sharing of the first transfer without any disappointment from your side. Let me hear from you URGENTLY by Email or my private number +27 72 449 6758 Best Regards,Mr. Mark Zuma
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