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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:

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr Khehla" <pinxwon13@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kcshubane@myway.com
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 03:44:25 +0000
Subject: LEGITIMATE

Attn:

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business. Though, this
medium {Internet} has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it
because it still remains the fastest medium of communication.
However, this correspondence is unofficial and private, and it should be
treated as such.At first I will like to assure you that this transaction is
100% trouble free to both parties.

My name is Dr.Khehla Shubane,I work as the operational manager in account
management section in charge of credit and foreign bills of one of the prime
banks here in South Africa. On a routine inspection I discovered a dormant
domiciliary account with a Balance Of US$106,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Six
Million U.S Dollars).

On further discreet investigation, I also discovered that the account holder
has died long ago with his family on a fatal Auto-accident leaving no
beneficiary to the account and no other person knows about this account.

I am in close contact with the manager of the bank here who is my partner
and he is willing to approve the transfer to any reliable and trustworthy
foreigner with foreign bank account because the former operator of the a/c
is a foreigner too. I am certainly sure that he has no written or oral WILL
attached to the account, no beneficiary and nobody will come again for the
claim of this money.

I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to
claim this money. I only need your cooperation as a foreigner to provide
your safe bank account information for the transfer. [Even an empty valid
account without any money in it can serve in this business transaction].

All arrangement that will ensure a smooth transfer of the fund to the
account which you are to nominate is already in place. You should also
provide me with your direct phone lines for easy communication. I wish for
utmost confidentiality in handling this transaction.

At the conclussion of this transaction, your share will be 25% of the total
transfer sum, 70% for me and my partner while 5% will be set aside for any
expenses both parties might incure during the process of the transfer.

The fund will be transferred to your account in two parts. I will first
transfer USD Six [6] Million to your account and I will fly over to meet you
in your country after a successful transfer of the fund for sharing
according to the aforementioned percentages.
I will have the remaining balance of USD100 Million transferred to the same
account only after the successful sharing of the first transfer without any
disappointment from your side.

Let me hear from you URGENTLY.

Best Regards,
Dr.Khehla Shubane
Private E-mail{kcshubane001@myway.com}

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