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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: "CHULI SAVIMBI" <chulisavimbi@rccgmail.org> (may be fake)
Reply-To: chuli_savimbi@zwallet.com
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 09:54:09 -0700
Subject: PLEASE REPLY

Good Day,
With warm a heart I offer my friendship, and greetings, and I hope this mail meets you in good time. However strange or surprising this contact might seem to you as we have not met personally or had any dealings in the past, I humbly ask that you take due consideration of its importance and immense benefit. I duly apologize for infringing on your privacy, if this contact is not acceptable to you, as I make this proposal to you as a person of integrity.

First and foremost I wish to introduce myself properly to you. My name is Oliveira Chuli Savimbi, I am a nephew and Personal Assistant to Late Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, leader of UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola). As led by my instinct, I selected your email Address from an Internet directory, in my search for a partner, hence this email.
I also crave your indulgence to read this carefully, and have a general
Overview of my situation. My Uncle (Mentor) was killed in a battle with
government forces of Angola, led by President Dos Santos, on Friday 22nd February 2002. After his death, Mr. Antonio Dembo who was his second in command, assumed office as leader of UNITA, due to lack of the Charisma my Uncle had carried the party with in Dembo, there was chaos and struggle for leadership. Prominent members like Carlos Morgado lobbied to depose him and assumed office as leader to enrich themselves and some of them who saw me as a threat to their ambitions, including Mr.Dembo, planned to kill me. The tension and confusion in UNITA become uncontrollable when Mr. Dembo died 10days after my Uncle's death. As I lost my mentor in this struggle that has been on for three decades now, not so much of the struggle is of interest to me anymore, as there is longer any sense of direction. I have therefore resolved to live a very peaceful life, as I am no more interested in conflicts and wars. For this reason, I secretly left Angola and to seek for political asyl
um in Europe.

I am sincerely proposing to you to render me your highly needed assistance in respect to safekeeping of some of my Uncle's money that emanated from the sales of Diamond. This money (US$18.5million), which was already on its way to my Uncle's Swiss Bank account, through the Diplomatic means we use to move money abroad, and was on transit with a private safe deposit security company here in Europe in February last year when the tragic incident of my Uncle's death occurred.I then instructed the company to secure the consignment containing the money pending on further instructions from me. I have waited for sometime now for security reasons, and have now decided to act with your reliable assistance. As a matter of fact, the reason I came to Europe and sought for political asylum here and also for the safe deposit with the Security Company.

Presiden! t Jose Eduardo Dos Santos has lobbied the International Community to freeze my Uncle's assets and accounts abroad, to ground UNITA, and has already done this in Angola. Hence I cannot lodge the funds in my name. Also I did not declare the funds to there.

I plan to use this money to safeguard my future. It is very essential that you understand that the kind of trust and confidence I want to put in you is extraordinary, and an act of desperation on my part, in order not to lose this money. Also, ensure that this contact with you should be treated with utmost secrecy.

Your role in this project, is to provide us with your name or the name of your company for to use to make formal application to the security company for the release of the money to your nominated account through a corresponding bank, My share of the money should be returned to me when my asylum application in the present country I am
residing in is granted, and I have permission to do business and open an account here.

For your reliable assistance, You will be rewarded apercentage from the money, this we can negotiate as soon as we open talks.


Furthermore, all documentations involved in his transaction are in my possession and will make same available on request, as a sign of good faith, and these will be used for claim purposes from the security company. In addition I have the release codes of the vaults Also,everything will be legally processed for prompt transfer of ownership to you as my associate, and this transaction should be completed immediately. However the swiftness of this transaction solely depends on your prompt response and I want to assure you that this project is legal and 100% risk free so you do not have to worry about anything.

I thank you in advance as I anticipate your assistance in enabling me
Achieve this goal.

Please contact me even if you are interested in assisting me. This will enable me scout for another partner in the event of non-interest on your part.

To know more about the struggle by UNITA to liberate Angola, click on the links below and read.


<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1839000/1839252.stm>




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