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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)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • +27733072272 (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.
  • richardzuma022@yahoo.com
  • richardzuma001@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Richard Zuma <richardzuma0022@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: richardzuma777@pnetmail.co.za
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:32:23 -0800 (PST)
Subject: FAMILY ASSISTANC FUND TRANSFER (A CRY FOR HELP)


From: RICHARD ZUMA
Email: richardzuma022@yahoo.com
Direct Contact: 27-73-307-2272

Cape Town South Africa.

Good day.

Dear Sir/Madam

My name is RICHARD ZUMA The eldest son of MR. FRANCIS ZUMA, of Zimbabwe. You might be surprised as to where I got your contact address from; I got it from the South African Chamber of Commerce in Johannesburg.
During the current war against commercial farmers in Zimbabwe from the support of our PRESIDENT. ROBERT MUGABE, to claim all the white owned farms in the country, all the white farmers were ordered to surrender all their farms to his party members and his followers. My father was one of the best farmers in our country and because he did not support Mugabe’s idea, mugabe’s supporters invaded my father’s farm, killed my father, made way with a lot of items from my father’s farm and burnt everything else.

After my father’s death, when I was going through his files, I found out that there is an amount of money which he deposited in a private security company in Johannesburg, South Africa, as if he knew what was going to happen in the future. My mother and I, together with my younger sister decided to move out of Zimbabwe to South Africa. The amount deposited into the Security Company is US$26.M (TWENTY SIX MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS).

I have now decided to contact an overseas person/firm, who will assist me to move this money out of South Africa because we are asylum seekers here in South Africa, and the law here does not permit us to exercise financial rights.
If you consider this proposal, we have agreed to give you the total sum of 20% for assisting us to move this money to your country and 10% is mapped out for the expenses that may be incurred during this transaction and 70% will be for me and my family to invest in you country. I will like you to furnish me with your personal details, phone number for easy communication and also account details. You can contact me on my direct phone number +27-73-307-2272 through my private e-mail: [richardzuma001@yahoo.com] And modalities on how this transaction will be done shall be revealed to you once we establish trust between ourselves.

Note: This transaction is 100% risk free and is absolutely confidential.

Thanks and God Bless.

RICHARD ZUMA

[For the family]




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