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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:
  • "money laundering" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
• 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.
  • +27731480243 (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.
  • alfred_redebe111@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: alfred redebe <alfredredebe103@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:06:46 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS NEGOTIATION



From: Mr. Alfred Redebe
Tel: +27-73-148-0243
Fax: +27-11-507-6798
Email: alfred_redebe111@yahoo.com
Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dear Sir,

Compliments of the Day;

Let me start by introducing myself to you. I am Mr. Alfred Redebe, In-charge of Credit and Foreign bills of my Bank, AMALGAMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (ABSA) here in Johannesburg, South Africa. Visit our Websites:http://www.absa.co.za for more clarification.

I have an obscured business proposal to you, which involves the transfer of Twenty Five Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand U.S Dollars only ($25,550,000.00). As It may please you to know how I got the money, one of our accounts with a holding balance of money valued at the said amount has been dormant and has not been operated for the past six years.

From our investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account Mr. Andreas Schranner a citizen of Germany perished in a plane crash [Concorde Air Flight AF4590] with the whole passengers aboard on 31 July 2000. Since then nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this fund because he has no family member who is aware of the existence of neither the account nor the funds itself.

Similarly, Information from the South African Immigration stated that he was also single on entry into South Africa as such we could not establish any relative and therefore to this as an opportunity made to us. I have secretly discussed this matter with two top officials in my bank and we then agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with. We shall highlight further on how to go about this if it interests you to come into terms with us. However, it is totally risk and trouble free although confidentiality must be kept to avoid jeopardy, as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drugs, money laundering, terrorism or any other illegal means.

For your assistance in this regard, it will interest you to know that we will be willing to come to terms with you regarding your reward for helping us actualize this matter.

Please forward your reply to the above private details.

Best Regards,
Mr. Alfred Redebe
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