419 scam: "SUSAN SHABANGU"<sshabangu42@yahoo.com> PLEASE WE NEED YOUR URGENT HELP

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
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)
- "confidentiality of this transaction" (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 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.
- +27833503206 (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.
- susanshabangu2000@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SUSAN SHABANGU" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <susanshabangu2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 00:02:46 +0200
Subject: PLEASE WE NEED YOUR URGENT HELP

FROM MRS. SUSAN SHABANGU
MINISTER OF MINING OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
PRIVATE MOBILE NO - + 27 83 350 3206
EMAIL susanshabangu2000@yahoo.com

PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT HELP

Good Day:

First, let me start by introducing myself , i am MRS SUSAN SHABANGU, a mother of three children and the Minister of Mining of the Republic of South Africa since May 2009. To date under the auspices of the President of South Africa MR JACOB ZUMA. After due deliberation with my children, I decided to contact you for your assistance in standing as a beneficiary to the sum of US$30.5M (THIRTY MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) you can view my profile at my (website by clicking (www.info.gov.za/gol/gcis_profile.jsp?id=1066) and read about me.

THE PROPOSAL: After the swearing in ceremony making me the Minister of Mining, my husband LATE MR NDEBELE SHABANGU died while he was on an official trip to Trinidad and Tobago in 1996. After his death, I just discovered that he had some funds in a dollar account which amounted to the sum of US$30.5M (THIRTY MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) with a security and finance institution in South Africa of which I will divulge information to you when I get your full consent and support to go for a change of beneficiary and subsequent transfer of the funds into your comfortable and conducive overseas account of your choice.

This fund emanated as a result of an over-invoiced contract which he executed with the Government of South Africa. Though I assisted him in getting this contract but I never knew that it was over-invoiced by him. I am afraid that the government of South Africa might start to investigate on contracts awarded from 1990 to date.

If they discover this money in his bank account, they will confiscate it and seize his assets here in South Africa and this will definitely affect my political career in government. I want your assistance in coming down to South Africa by opening a new bank account through my banker so that this fund could be transferred into your overseas account directly without any hitch.

I am offering you 20% of the principal sum which amounts to US$6,100.000.00 (SIX MILLION, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) and 5% will be for any expenses that both of us may Incur in this transaction. And another 5% will go for Motherless babes home, while 70% will be for my family's investments in your country. However, you have to assure me and also be ready to go into agreement with me that you will not elope with my fund. If you agree to my terms, due to my position in the government I will not be speaking to you over the office phone lines as my telephone lines are monitored but kindly provide me with your own private mobile number so that I can call you and as a matter of urgency please kindly contact me with the above email address and my private mobile number.

Please do inform me of your travel arrangements to travel down to south Africa for the completion of this transaction as I have already completed the transfer arrangements with the help of a bank director who I have explained my predicaments and he have agreed to assist me in this transaction as soon as I find a foreigner that will stand and act as the beneficiary of this money. Please I do not need to remind you of the need for absolute Confidentiality of this transaction.

My regards to you and your family,

Yours faithfully,

MRS. SUSAN SHABANGU

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