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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)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "hundred thousand us 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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • mrsfeliciadan@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mrsfelicia dan20" <mrsfeliciadan@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:14:50 -0700
Subject: INVITATION FOR PARTNERSHIP


*INVITATION FOR PARTNERSHIP
ATTN: DIRECTOR/CEO
TEL: 27-720-110-046
Dear Sir/Madam,*
*EMAIL; **mrsfeliciadan@gmail.com*<http://us.mc376.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mrsfeliciadan@gmail.com>



With due respect, trust and humility, I write to you this proposal, which I
believe would be of great interest to you. I find your contact while I was
doing a private research on the Internet for a reliable and capable foreign
partner that will assist my family and I to transfer fund to his personal or
private account and for investment purpose. I am *MRS.FELICIA DAN* the wife
of Late *MR. OGELE DAN*, who was the "Chairman" of the farmer's co-operation
in Zimbabwe .

My Late Husband was among the few blacks that were murdered in cold blood by
the President Robert Mugabe Administration during the land dispute that just
happened in Zimbabwe . After the death of my Husband, we decided to move out
of *ZIMBABWE* because our lives were in danger because of the money that my
husband kept in his hidden safe in our house. The amount contained in the
safe is *US $14.5M* *(fourteen* *million five hundred thousand US dollars).
*

This money was meant for the purchase of new machines and chemicals for the
farms and establishment of new farms in Swaziland . Before his death, He is
a Major Share Holder of companies in *Zimbabwe* . After my Husband died, we
moved to South Africa and deposited this fund to his account oversea and for
the safety of our family. This money in a security company in a box as
valuables belonging to our foreign partner pending when we see somebody that
will assist us transfer the said Fund.

We are presently in South Africa as Refugee (Asylum Seekers) and as such the
law of South Africa does not permit us to operate or open any bank account
here in South Africa or be involved in any financial transaction with the
bank. That is why we contacted you to assist us in this transaction.

We are ready to compensate you with *30%* of the total fund for accepting to
assist us, contact me on the above phone number indicating your interest as
soon as possible, on receiving your acceptance, I will be glad to give you
more clarification on the modalities needed for smooth successful completion
of this transaction.

I anticipate your quick response.

Best regard.

*You can view this website for more clearibility ;*.(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6504039.stm)


*MRS.FELICIA DAN.*
*PLEASE CALL MY SON MR .JEFF DAN.*
*TEL: 27-720-110-046*
*(For and On behalf of my family) *
*20. NETMARK STREET JOHANNESBURG**
SOUTHAFRICA*
* *Reply me with this my private email address;
*mrsfeliciadan@gmail.com*<http://us.mc376.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mrsfeliciadan@gmail.com>

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