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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "million united state 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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "urgent assistance" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +27733595544 (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.
  • jameszuma5011@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: james zuma <jjameeszuma3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <jameszuma5011@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:48:34 +0200
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL



FROM: JAMES ZUMA
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
TELL +27-73-359-5544
EMAL:jameszuma5011@yahoo.com

URGENT ASSISTANCE

Dear Sir/Madam

My name is MR JAMES ZUMA the son of MR DAN ZUMA from Zimbabwe. It might be a surprise to you where I got your contact from South Africa information network online {SA} trade centre {SA} During the current crises against the farmers of Zimbabwe by the supporter of our president Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country, my father were one of farmers to surrender their farms to his party members and their followers. My father was one of the best farmers in the country and knowing that he did not support the president’s political ideology, the president’s supporters invaded my father’s farm. Burnt down everything shot him and as a result of the wounds sustained he became sick and died after two days and after his death, I decided to move out of Zimbabwe for the safety of our lives to South Africa

But, before he died he wrote his wheel which reads my beloved son I wish to draw your attention to the sum of {TEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS} {US$10 MILLION} which I deposited in a box with a security company in south Africa in case of my absence on earth caused by death only, you should solicit for a reliable foreign partner to assist you to transfer this money in your name, and it can be claimed by you alone with the deposit code, all the documents, are with your mother take care of the family, from the above you will understand that the live and future of my family depends on this money as much I will be very grateful if you can assist us, we are now living in south Africa as a political asylum seekers and the financial law of south Africa does not allow asylum seekers certain financial rights to such huge amount of money.

In view of this I cannot invest this money in south Africa hence I am asking you to assist us to transfer this money out of south Africa for investment purposes. For your efforts I am prepared to offer you 25% of the total sum while 5%will be set aside for local and international expenses and 70%will be kept for my family and I finally, modalities on how the transfer will be done will be conveyed to you once we establish trust and confidence between ourselves. Looking forward to your urgent reply

NOTE: THE KEY WORD TO THIS TRANSACTION ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENCAL AND SECRACY. THIS TRANSACTION IS 100%RISK FREE. YOUR URGENT RESPONSE WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED.AND GIVE ME YOUR PRIVATE PHONE AND FAX NUMBER TO CONTACT YOU

FROM MR JAMES ZUMA
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