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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand 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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "dzuma06 Gazeta.pl" <dzuma06@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: zdes40@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:34:54 +0200
Subject: URGENT !


Dear Sir/ Madam,

I am Mr. Desmond Zuma, account manager to Mr. Sean Burke, who was a
Contractor/consultant to Kruger Mining (SA) Pty a South Africa Government
Own
Mining Company. On the 31st of January 2000 , my client was involved in an
air
crash along side other passengers. Since then I have made several enquiries
here to locate any of my clients relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful.

You can confirm this from the website below.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/

After all these several unsuccessful attempts to locate any of my clients
relatives, hence my decision to contact you and front you as his next-of-
Kin/business associate. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the
fund
valued at the tune of (US$14.5M) Fourteen Million Five Hundred Thousand
United
States Dollars left behind by my late client into your account before it
gets
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank. The Bank has already
issued
me (as my late client's account manager) a notice to provide the next of kin
or
have his account confiscated.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives of my late client
over
the years, I seek the consent to present you as the next of Kin/business
associate to my late client, so that the proceeds of this account can be
paid
to you. Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then
discuss
the modalities for transfer. I have all necessary information and legal
documents needed to back you up for the claim.

The sharing ratio would be (30%) of the total sum for you while me and my
colleagues receive
(60%), 5% for miscellaneous expenses like the accumulated taxes and others
expenses, then 5% for Charity Organizations.

I will want you to furnish me with the following information's stated below
to
enable us proceed with the transaction immediately:

(1) Your direct phone number, cell, & fax number
(2) Your full names
(3) Your age
(4) Your Country of Origin
(5) Your Marital Status
(6) Your profession

All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this
transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate

arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

I look forward towards a good business relationship with you.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Desmond Zuma.

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