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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "is highly confidential" (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 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.
  • kjames0007@mailbox.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: bin post <binpost130@msn.com>
Reply-To: <kjames0007@mailbox.co.za>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 04:41:38 +0000
Subject: RELOCATION/PARTNERSHIP



MR KABINDA JAMES
NO; 35 BEREA ROAD
PARKVEIW 2147.
JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA.
E-MAIL;kjames0007@mailbox.co.za
TELL; 27-78-717-6883


Attention,


I know this letter will come to you as a surprise. I got your contact through the
World
journal here in South Africa. My name is JAMES KABINDA. I am the only surviving
son of MR.CHARLES KABINDA of the DEMOCRATIC REPLUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC). My father was
the executive director of my country's DIAMOND MINING COMMISSION before and after
2000 when the six-nation war broke out.


In NOVEMBER 7TH 2003, PRESIDENT JOSEPH KABILA with some senior officials because of
their embellishment of money realized from diamond sales to the Western world laid
my father out of office. My father was tried by a military court, and afterwards
imprisoned for life. During his tenure of office, he had made a fortune of
US$4.2MLLION (FOUR MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS). He
deposited this money in my name with a security deposit company in Johannesburg
South Africa. Right now, I am residing with my sister MMAMAELE in South Africa.


PROPOSAL:


Based on this, I am contacting you to help us in saving our future by assisting us
to transfer this fund with your bank facilities to your country for investment
purposes as we are not allowed by the SOUTH AFRICAN MONETARY LAW to operate such an
account as ASSYLUM SEEKERS. We do not have any business permit or any operating
company that can absorb the fund, neither do we need to identify our family name
with such amount of money here in Africa to avoid any public inquest.


I am willing to give you 25% of the total fund for your assistance, 5% shall be set
aside for any expenses that we may have encountered during the course of this
project while 70% shall be for me and my family.
MUTUAL TRUST AND ABSOLUTE CONFIDENTIALITY:


Please note that this matter is highly confidential and I will appreciate it if it
remains so with now, during and after completion of the project. Note also that as
soon as you indicate your interest, we shall discuss further on the modalities of
the project. Should you be interested, please contact me on my private mobile number
or e-mail address as stated above. Feel free to ask me any question you might deem
necessary. Thank you in anticipation of your soonest response.


Best Regards,


MR KABINDA JAMES.

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