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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:
  • "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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a "Zimbabwe" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: michaeldubeuk2009@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:58:23 +0530 (IST)
Subject: PLEASE YOUR UNDERSTANDING FROM MR. MICHAEL DUBE FAMILY.


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: michaeldubeuk12@yahoo.in



- Dear Sir/Madam,I know you will be surprised to receive this proposal.Actually I got your contact address from the United Kingdom Information Exchange International here in London,when I was making an intensive research for my investment in your country.Then,I decided to contact you directly. First and foremost,by introduction,Iam Mr Michael Dube, the only surviving SON of the late DR.JOHNSON DUBE of Zimbabwe,During the current crisis against the farmers of Zimbabwe by the supporters of our president Mugabe to claim all the foreign owned farms in our country,he ordered all the foreigners and rich black farmers to surrender their farms to his party members and their followers. My father was one of the rich black farmers in the country and a major financier/sponsor of the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change {MDC} and knowing that my father did not support his Political ideology and long stay in Government,the president Robert Mugabes supporters invaded my fathers farm, strangled him to death with my Mom and burnt them.You can not believed they kept me and my sister hostage and I watched our parent burnt to ashes,After the death of my father and mother,I and my younger sister Felicia decided to move out of Zimbabwe for the safety of our life.Before the death of my father, he has already sold most of the family businesses,as if he foresaw the looming danger and drawn my attention to a deposited cash asset of $18,500,000.00 (Eighteen Million, five hundred thousand United States Dollars) he realized from the sales of our farmland and profits maximizes. His intentions were to establish new farms in Republic of Swaziland and Malawi before the ugly incidence that took away his life,This fund is presently being kept away in a Security/Finance Company for safe keeping.I am looking for any reliable person overseas who is willing to help me and my sister to transfer this money out from the security company to a foreign account and use it for investment in his/her country because we are asylum seekers here in London and asylum seekers status in London prohibits any refugee to open or operate a non-resident account with any commercial bank through which this fund will be channeled out into a nominated overseas account.This is our reason of contacting you for assistance.As a Foreigner,believing that you could be trusted to be part of my family in the management of this fund.And again it is 100% risk free,If my proposition is considered,for assisting us to transfer this money to your country,we will offer you 30% of the total sum while 65% will be for my family investment in your country under your supervision,and 5% will kept aside for any expenses that we will incure during and after the transaction.We are obliged to inform you that we do not force you to help us but from your sincere mind or to take undue advantage of our present predicament,What is required most is your absolute consent and supports that we are safe in your hands in building this confidence reposed upon you from a distance family.call me on my direct number.0044 70 24079633,Note that the relevant legal documents of this asset are intact that empowers our legal ownership of the asset.Best Regards,MR.MICHAEL DUBE [For the family.

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