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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: Walter Nkosi <wnkosi01@yahoo.it>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:46:47 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Detailed Explanation/Confirm Receipt


From: Walter Nkosi

To: Roel Amsterdam

Dear Mr. Roel Amsterdam,

Thanks for your email responding and expressing your interest in this mutually rewarding business to all parties involved. It would be a pleasure working with
you to secure and invest the funds in your country, for mutual benefits.

After long deliberation by the members of the committee, I, the Undersigned have been nominated to continue discussion with you until the completion of this mutual beneficial project.

In brief, for us to initiate this said transaction properly, we need to File in an application/claim to the Department of Mining & Energy to Legalize all
documentation and make this project 100% risk free, thus it Would not be viewed as terrorist money, Laundering money and drug money.

Consequently, we want to front you as the new beneficiary of the said sum for the purpose of legalizing the transaction, we shall procure the appropriate documents by incorporating any name you will give as an existing company over here in South Africa; we are going to register the name as a contractor here in our various government departments.

Kindly retype the letter of claim on your official company letter documents and fax back to my office for us to commence this transaction with immediate effect. But if you do not have a company you can retype it on a plain sheet of document and fax it across.

The key to the success of this transaction is the letter of claim that I am waiting for because without the claim letter we cannot start securing all the legal documents to authenticate this transaction.

Please, endeavor to call me immediately on my direct line, +27 82 695 0850 as soon as you are in receipt of this message for me to bring you into the complete picture of this mutual beneficial transaction as well as to intimate you on how we have put machinery and the modalities in place to achieve this goal in Between 7-8 bank days. I await your urgent response as time is of great essence to this transaction.

Please let me have your response either by return e-mail or you can give me call on my direct telephone number for further clarifications, I would also like to have your direct telephone and fax numbers for easier communication and to add voice to our names.

Thank you and God bless.

Walter Nkosi.

Dial the below numbers directly as seen
Fax: +27 11 5075 409
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Instruction: Please retype the letter below into your official company letterhead and send it to me by fax immediately. Don't forget your signature on the space provided for it with company stamp/seal and your private telephone and fax numbers affixed to it.
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The Director,
Accounts /Audit Dept.
Ministry of Mining & Natural Resources
Oranje Nassau Building,
Schoeman Street, Pretoria
South Africa.

Sir,

LETTER OF CLAIM
RE: CONTRACT No.: MNR/DME//0765/SA03 AMOUNT: US$26,500,000:00 (TWENTY SIX MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND, UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY)
I,
........................................................................................................
The Managing Director of the above company, do hereby claim amount due in respect of the above contract, whose particulars appear below:

A. Date of award of Contract... December 12, 2003

B. Date of Completion of Contract... March 31, 2004

C. Value of Contract...... US$26,500,000.00

D. Contract Number..... MNR/DME//0765/SA03

E. Contract Location(s)........ Ministry of Mining & Natural Resources Cape Town.

I am therefore, on behalf of my company, requesting for the payment of the above contract value to be made to me whose particulars are stated as below:

1. Name of Beneficiary........................................................

2. Address of Beneficiary.....................................................

3. Tel. No of Beneficiary.......................................................

4. Fax No of Beneficiary…………….......................................

I hope this application will be given its due consideration.

Yours faithfully for: (Your Company's name)

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