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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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Fraud email example:

From: TESSY MURGRU <tessyluvforever@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 06:07:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM TESSY (Harry Anslinger )


ATTN: Harry Anslinger

I am Miss Tessy Murgru, First and only daughter of late MR Larry Murgru who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irrate black people.Before the death of my father on the 1st of Oct 2003, he was a Properous Tobacco and Coffee farmer in Zimbabwe and one of the major sponsor/ Financier of the opposition party - Movement For Democratic Change(MDC)in zibabwe. He was also the former president of Farmers Co-operative Trade Union in Zimbabwe.
I am writting you from Accra Ghana. I got your contact email address through the Accra Ghana International Information Exchange Centre and decided to write you. I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by the dictator President ROBERT MUGABE and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party. I am probably of the convinction that you are aware of the present situation in my country Zimbabwe sequel to the land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irrate party members to disposes the land being occupied by whites and some rich farmers who are opposed to his consistent stay in power and his radical and unnecessary reforms targeted at his political opponents.

This action has led to the killing of some members of the opposition party including my beloved father (MR Larry Murgru),who did not support this ill-fated action. But before the death of my father and the consistent threats to his life, he anticipated some dangers and so he smuggled out the sum of US$20.5m(TWENTY MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in a TRUCK BOX to Accra Ghana since it is safe and peacfull country and deposited it in a security/finance company with the intention of using it for the purchase of New farm machinery and chemicals for Agricultural purposes in Accra Ghana as well as a purchase of some hectares of land in swaziland, but they did not allow us to cliam it because it was deposited to be transfer out by my father. On the 1st Oct, 2003, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him (my father) to death. Since then, they have been terrorizing me and my widowed mother, but we
succeeded to work for our escape to a faw African country, Accra Ghana as a political asylum seeker (refugee). But our position in Accra Ghana does not permit me to open an account or normalise this fund for any meaningful business transaction in Accra Ghana since I does not have a Accra Ghana Identity Card. That is why I want this fund to be deliver to you at your door step so that you will assist me to invest it in your country.

Hence,if you agree to assist us, we have two options for you, we have
agreed to go into partnership with you and your family or in the alternatve, we offer you 20%of the money for your assistance, 10% will be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction,while 70%will be for our family investment in yourcountry,through your assistance.
I want you to understand that this fund is purely a family fund/ money and not drug money, nor could it be classified as government fund or Money
Laundering affairs and it could be substanciated by relevant authorties
by our attorney.It is Family fund but termed confidential because I do not
want myself to be traced to where i'm presently. If you are interested in
assisting us, kindly contact me with this email address,and please give me your hpone number for immedate contact telephone number above. Right now, I am presently in Accra Ghana with my widowed mother and my younger sister and the whole of my family sequel to the tensed political situation and the fear for our lives in Zimbabwe. I need your urgent and confidential response.

Thanks.
Miss Tessy Murgru
(For the Family)


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