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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.
• This email message is a "Zimbabwe" 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.
  • +27793282556 (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.
  • mrs.karabohphumzile@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS.PRECIOUS KARABOH" <mrskaraboh005@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:17:34 +0200
Subject: From: Mrs. Precious Karaboh.



From: Mrs. Precious Karaboh.
Johannesburg , South Africa .
Tell: +27 793-282-556.
E-mail:mrs.karabohphumzile@yahoo.com

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE

ATTN: SIR / MADAM,

I am Mrs. Precious Karaboh, the wife of late Mr. John Karaboh who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people. Before the death of my husband on the 29th of Oct 2003 , he was a Prosperous Tobacco and Coffee farmer in Zimbabwe and one of the major sponsor/ Financier of the opposition party - Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in Zimbabwe . He was also the former president of Farmers Co-operative Trade Union in Zimbabwe .

I am writing to you from Johannesburg , South Africa . I got your contact address through the South African International Information Exchange Centre and decided to write you. I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by the dictator President ROBERT MUGABE and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party.

I am probably of the conviction that you are aware of the present situation in my country Zimbabwe sequel to the land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to disposes the land being occupied by whites and some rich farmers who are opposed to his consistent stay in power and his radical and unnecessary reforms targeted at his political opponents.

This action has led to the killing of some members of the opposition party including my husband (Late Mr. John Karaboh), who did not support this ill-fated action. But before the death of my husband and the consistent threats to his life, he anticipated some dangers and so he smuggled out the sum of US$17.2M (Seventeen Million Two Hundred United States Dollars Only), to South Africa since it is the nearest neighboring country and deposited it in a security & Finance company with the intention of using it for the purchase of new farm machinery and chemicals for Agricultural purposes in South Africa and purchase of some hectares of land in Swaziland, which is also a nearby country to Zimbabwe.

On the 29th Oct, 2003 , the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him (My Late Husband) to death. Since then, they have been terrorizing my only son, (JOHN JR) but I succeeded to work for his escape to a neighboring country, South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee). But his position in South Africa does not permit him to open an account or normalize this fund for any meaningful business transaction in South Africa since He does not have a South Africa Identity Card. That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your country account so that you will assist him to invest it in your country.

Hence, if you agree to assist us, we have two options for you, we have agreed to go into partnership with you and your family or in the alternative, we offer you 30%of the money for your assistance, 5% will be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 65% will be for our investment in your country as soon as the fund has been transfer to your account in your country, through your assistance.


Your urgent and confidential response will be highly appreciated.


Thanks. Best regards

Mrs. Mrs. Precious / John Karaboh. (Jnr)
(For the Family)
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