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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "robert mugabe" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +27834318183 (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.
  • patricmoyo290@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Jessica Moyo <mrsjmoyo088@msn.com>
Reply-To: <patricmoyo290@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:30:59 +0000
Subject: Mrs.Jessica For Moyo's Family.



23/03/2009

Dear Friend,

The recent xenophobic attacks on refugees and asylums in South Africa have forced us to send this proposal to you.

cabiI am Mrs. jessica Moyo from Zimbabwe, the surviving wife of late Engr. Patrick Moyo former net member of the tyrant President Robert Mugabe, who resigned and merged with a white farmer and invested in diamond mine also joined the opposition party MDC.

As soon as my husband joined the opposition party and partnered with a white farmer the President gave him one allegation and confiscate all his assets and frozen all his accounts.In 2006 December, some gun men murdered my husband in cold blooded those gun men where Mugabe's hit men.

Since the sudden demise of my husband, we got a hint that the president wanted to wipe off my family, I fled with my only son and daughter to South Africa seeking political asylum. We have been here waiting to obtain South African resident status before we can decide on what to do next, until last week when some youths in South Africa took to the street killing foreigners who are seeking asylums and refugees, this forced us to sending you this proposal.

Before the death of my husband he saved the sum of $7.1 Million USD (seven million one hundred thousand dollars) through a security and finance house here in South Africa, I am in position of the deposit documents. Because of our status here we can not process the release and transfer of this fund because the asylum law here dose not permit us to do so.

Hence we are looking for a foreigner who can be trusted and capable to help us in processing and receiving this fund on our behalf. We are willing to give you 20% of the total fund.As soon as you confirm your willingness to assist us, we will start making arrangements to come over to your country to settle down and start a new life and you will also help us identifying lucrative venture where we can invest our part of the funds.

Contact my son, who just graduated in a university shortly before my husband's death For more detail through his phone; His name is patrick Moyo Jr. +27 834 318 183, Email:patricmoyo290@gmail.com

Best regards,

Mrs. Jessica Moyo
For Moyo's Family

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