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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)
  • "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)
  • "i got your address from " (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • +27784944403 (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.
  • michealwilliams030@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Rosemary william <rwilliams19f@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:24:52 +0200
Subject: Mrs.Rosemary.F.Wiilliams



From: Mrs.Rosemary.F.Wiilliams. 18 Sunheight Ranburg EastJohannesburg South Africa.
My Son email:( michealwilliams030@yahoo.com)
Mobile:+27 784 944 403

Dear Friend,

This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial as a matter of urgent am desperately looking for a foreign partner whom I can trust to handle some investment or fund movement.

I am Mrs.Rosemary.F.Wiilliams, wife of late Mr. Felix G. Williams, who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people. I am writing from South Africa. I got your address from the consultancy directory during my search for a reliable and honest person to transact this business with.

I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party-president Robert Mugabe. Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to dispossess the land being occupied by white farmers. This action has led to the killing of some members of opposition party including my husband (Felix G.Williams).

But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he deposited the sum of US$6.5m(Six million Five hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in the name of our only son Micheal E.Williams Jr, with the help of reputable security company in south Africa with the intention of using it to open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our neighboring country (Swaziland) after his university education.
On the 29th of June 2000,the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him (my husband) to death. Since then, they have been terrorizing my only son, Micheal E. Williams Jr, but we managed to escape to a neighboring country, South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee). But our position in South Africa does not permit us to open an account or run any huge financial business.

That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your private account so that you will assist him to invest it in your country. Hence, if you agree to assist us, we will offer you 20% of the money for your assistance, 5% will be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 75% will be for our family investment in your country under your close supervision. I need your urgent and confidential response.(michealwilliams030@yahoo.com)

Best regards,Mrs. Rosemary Williams.(For The Family).
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