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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:
  • "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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "chief auditor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • +27837517876 (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.
  • fred-khumalo@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:47:42 +0100
Subject: your urgent response needed please


CONFIDENTIAL LETTER Dear Sir,
Compliments of day to you, obviously this message might come as a surprise to you, but please consider it as a high priority issue, which will defi nitely change our destiny for good, I am Dr Fred Khumalo, the Chief Auditor of a Bank here in South Africa for the past 12 years now.
There is a Draft Account opened in my bank in 1988 by a long-time client of our bank Mr. Mohamed Mohd, who was a foreigner from LEBANON, an Arab Citizen. He was a businessman, a miner at Kruger Mining Company here in South Africa, he was also a geologist and a mining consultant to several other mining conglomerates operating in South Africa, Ghana, Republic of Congo [DRC], Angola, and Zimbabwe all in Africa, before he passed away on the 25th December , 2003 plane crash that occurred in a small country in west Africa, Republic of Benin. leaving nobody as the next of kin or beneficiary of his account after his death, Please read through the crash reported site.
crashwebsite=http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index [http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index]
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As an auditor in the our bank, I am aware of every details of his bank account from 1988 till date, and when the last deposit was made before hi s death. As a matter of fact the amount in this account is currently (Eighteen Million, one hundred thousand United States Dollars US$18,100,000.00) waiting to be approved fo r immediate payment by the bank to any foreign account holder with accurate details concerning this account from 1988 till 2003, who has all that is needed to be his next of kin and beneficiary/ inheritor. In other words No withdrawal or deposit has been made since after his death till today in the account.
I want to present you as the next of kin to late Mr. Mohamed Mohd because this money cannot be approved for payment into any local account, but can only be approved to a foreign account because it was insured and there is a clause in the depository agreement bet ween the Bank and Mr. Mohame d Mohd which states that on No condition can any local withdrawals be made from this account unless an offshore transfer. In effect withdrawals can be made only when the money has
been transferred from the vaults of the bank to a foreign bank account, I want to remit this fund out as soon as possible to avoid the South African Government from confiscating this money in line with the Federal Edict Act of 1979.
If you are willing and capable of handling such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my instructions and advice for our mutual benefits, because this opportunity may not come our way again I will use my position and influence in our bank to secure all legal approvals and onward transfer of this money into your nominated overseas bank account with the appropriate legal procedures here in
South Africa within 10 official bank working days. This will be done and concluded legally to make the transaction a risk free one. I know how to do it and all the legal procedures needed.< BR>
I will physically be in your country for the sharing of the money as soon as you confirm the money into your overseas ba nk account, I will offer you 35% of the total money for your assistance, 5% will be mapped out for all expenses that may be incurred in the course of this transaction, while 60% will be for me to invest in your country. Finally, you should reply urgently and also call me on my private
telephone number +27-837517876 to enable my lawyer start up with all arrangements to certify you as beneficiary of the said fund at the Minist ry of finance and justice respectively.
Kindly get back to me using this my alternative private email address:
(fred-khumalo@hotmail.com)
Please treat this information as highly confidential. Looking forward
to hearing from you.
Thanks and remain blessed
Best Regards,
Dr.Fred Khumalo
Private tel+27-837517876
Email. Fred-khumalo@hotmail.com [http://us.mc1100.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Fred-khumalo@hotmail.com]





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