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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)
  • "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)
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (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 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.
  • +27739444293 (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.
  • s.shabangu00@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 20ngu00@gmail.com
  • 20gu00@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Susan Shabangu" <s.shabangu00@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:38:50 +0200
Subject: URGENT RESPONSES PLEASE.




From /Mrs. Susan Shabangu/

Deputy Minister of safe ty & security,

/South Africa/.

Tel: +27-73-944-4293

E-mail: (/s.shabangu00@gmail.com [http://us.mc538.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=s.shaba%20ngu00@gmail.com]/)



Dear Sir/Madam



First, let me start by introducing myself as Mrs. Susan Shabangu, a mother of three children and the deputy minister of safety and security since 29th April 1996 to date under the auspices of the president of South Africa Mr. /Thabo Mbeki /.



/After due deliberation with my children, I decided to contact you for your assistance in standing as a beneficiary to the sum of US$30.5m (Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only) you can view my profile at my website/ www.gov.za [http://www.gov.za/] click on, contact information, then click on deputy minister, and click on safety and sec urity finally, click on my name Susan Shabangu and read about me. The proposal, after the swearing in ceremony making me the deputy m inister of safety and security, my husban d Mr. Ndelebe Shabangu died while he was on an official trip to /Trinidad and Tobago/ in 1996 .



After his death, I discovered that he had some funds in a dollar account which amounted to the sum of us$30.5 Million with a Security and F inance Institution in /South Africa/ of which I will divulge information to you when i get your fu ll consent and support to go for a change of beneficiary and subsequent transfer of the funds into you a comfortable and conducive account of your choice.



This fund emanated as a result of an over-invoiced contract, which he executed with the government of South Africa. Though i assisted him in getting this contra ct but I never k new that it was over-invoiced by hi m. I am afraid that the government of South /Africa/ might t start to investigate on contracts awarded from 1990 to date. If they discover this money i n his bank account, t hey will confiscate it and seize his assets here in South Africa and this will definitely affect my political career in government.



For your assistance, I am offering you 2 0% of the principal sum, which amounts to US$6,10 0.000.00 (Six million One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only) however, you have to assure me and also be ready to go into agreement with me that you will not elope with my fund. If you agree to my terms, kindly as a matter of urgency send me an email. Due to my sensitive position in the South African government,



PLEASE DO NOT CALL ME ON THE OFFICE PHONE FOR SECURITY REASONS. Feel free to contact me on email (s.shabangu00@gmail.com [http://us.mc538.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=s.sha ban%20gu00@gmail.com]) or you can call my son on this number +27-73-944-4293 Joseph Shabangu.

If you want to spea k with my banker, that is fine and okay by me. You will have to send down you private telephone /fax number so that I can forward it to him to re ach you from time to time this is for security reasons. Please I do not need to remind you of the need for absolute confidentiality of this transaction must succeed. If you d o not feel comfortable with this transaction, do not hesitate to disco ntinue.

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation and my regards to your family.



Best Regard //

//

/Mrs. Susan Shabangu/ //

Dept. Minister Safety & security //

South Africa. //



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