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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • +27737797973 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
  • +27866949533 (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.
  • collbanga@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Collins Bandanga <cobga11@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:07:22 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Please Read and Reply Me Very Urgently


JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA.
PHONE: +27-73 779 7973
FAX: +27-866 949 533
Email: collbanga@yahoo.co.uk

Dearest One,

It's my pleasure to contact you for a business venture, which I intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

There is this huge amount of Eighty Six million U.S dollars ($86,000, 000.00), which my late Father deposited in one of the Private Security & Finance Company here in SOUTH AFRICA, before he was assassinated by unknown persons.

Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough for security and political reasons. We want you to help us to transfer this fund to your country for investment purposes on the below business ventures;

1). Telecommunication
2). Automobile manufacturing
3). Hotel Management
4). Buying shares from any profiting firm in your country.
5). Real Estate Developments


And we agreed to offer you 45% of the total amount of money, 50% is for us here, and 5% will be used for miscellaneous expenses during the transfer.

If you are capable to handle the transaction without hitches and flaws, then we have confidence in the business and a risk free transfer from our side.
Please, make it TOP SECRET and avoid every channel of implicating us here.

Extend my warmest regards to your family.
I await your soonest response through this email address
( collbanga@yahoo.co.uk )


Thank you.
Sincerely Yours

Mr Collins Bandanga









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