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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • jnmbza@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: J M <f_y_a_180@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <jnmbza@myway.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 08:42:39 +0000
Subject: Trustworthy Business Assistant Needed by Mr. John Mabuza.



Dear Friend,
I am Mr. John Mabuza, manager of bills & exchange at the foreign remittance department of Old Mutual Bank of South Africa. I am writing asking you to present yourself as the next of kin to one of our foreign customer who died with his entire family in a ghastly plane crash on 31st of July 2000. The fund amounts to ($15,500,000), which we want to keep under your supervision until our coming over to have our share in your country.

Since his death we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his funds, we cannot release it unless somebody applied for it as next of kin or relative to the deceased as indicated in our banking guiding principles. Unfortunately nobody has come to claim these funds.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this fund cannot be approved to a local Bank here, and our banking principles stop us from having foreign accounts. It is for this reason we decided to contact you. We are going to process all the legal documentations in your favor which will give you the legal right to make claim of the funds from the bank as the next of kin.

See website for details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Please, I am proposing 25% for you for your assistance while my colleagues and I will take 70% and 5% earmarked for expenses we are going to encounter at the course of this transaction. Your reply should indicate your willingness in assisting us. And I will send you all the detailed information’s and documents that you will need to process an application for the claim of the funds.

Please if you are interested kindly send your names and telephone/fax numbers to me for further details.

Please I am expecting your urgent response via email: jnmbza@myway.com

Kind Regards,Mr. John Mabuza
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