419 scam: "Mrs. Julia Lemi" <webvfrrt45@outlook.com> Yours Truly

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "huge amount of money" (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)
- "million 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)
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.
- +27742312300 (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.
- lemisfamily@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Julia Lemi" <webvfrrt45@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:12:10 +0200
Subject: Yours Truly

From:
Mrs. Julia Lemi

Johannesburg, South
Africa.

Tel: +27
74 2312300

Email: lemisfamily@gmail.com

Attn: Sir/Madam,

This mail
may come to you as a surprise but I plead with you to patiently read through,
in anticipation that you will deem it strictly confidential and of mutual
benefit to both of us. Permit me to introduce my proposal to you. My name is
Mrs. Julia Lemi, the wife of former Sudan’s Minister of Rural
Development & cooperation Late Dr. Jimmy Lemi. My husband was in his
office, at our capital Khartoum.
You can confirm the news via the website below:

http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2143830&language=en

Your contact was reliably introduced to me by
South Africa Chamber of Commerce and Industry during my search for a reliable
business partner who can
assist us in a strictly confidential transaction. This involves the transfer
and investment of my family fund of (USD26M) TWENTY SIX MILLION UNITED STATES
DOLLARS, to a foreign account; hence I decided to write you. Originally, this
money was mapped out by my late husband for the purchase of new Agro farm
machinery, and establishment of Tobacco farms in Zimbabwe. But due to political unrest in that region as a result of the introduction of new Land Reform
Act, he decided and took my son with him to South
Africa and deposited this money in a Private security company (will not be
disclosed now for security reason). After making the deposit, he came
back to notify me about the money before he was murdered.

However,
due to several threats on my family from the incumbent president, who has
denied any Government involvement in master minding the death of my husband, we
fled from our country Sudan
to South Africa
to seek POLITICAL ASYLUM. Upon our arrival in South
Africa, we realize that the government financial policy
of this country does not permit us certain financial rights to access such huge
amount of money; this is why I seek your assistance to transfer this money out
of South Africa.

If you
accept to assist us in this transaction, please indicate your interest by
sending an email to my son Alan, via
the above email. Also email us your Full name, Age, Telephone number,
Occupation or Position held in your company,
and he will give you comprehensive detail on how this transaction will be
accomplished without any hitch. We are willing to offer you 40% of the total
money for your assistance in this venture while the remaining will be for my
family investment in your country.

Thanks in anticipation for your
co-operation and God Bless.

Yours Truly,

Mrs. Julia Lemi

(For the Family)

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