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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: audreymabuza@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:50:05 +0200
Subject: PLEA FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE !!!

FROM: MRS AUDREY MABUZA
HARARE ZIMBABWE.
E-MAIL:confitransactn01@yahoo.com

Good Day,

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
You might be surprised to receive this letter from me since you don`t know
me personally. I am Mrs.AUDREY MABUZA the wife of late Mr WILLIEM MABUZA
who was murdered by the Zimbabwean war veterans and irate black people.
I am writing this letter from Harare, Zimbabwe, to solicit for your special
assistance to my family shattered by a
tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party,
President ROBERT MUGABE.

Because of land and farmland crisis in Zimbabwe the government secretly
sponsored the war veterans and some
irate party members to disposed the land being occupied by the white farmers.
This action led to killing of some
members of opposition party including my husband who did not support this
ill-fated action. But before the death of
my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he smuggled out the sum of
US$25.5 million dollars (Twenty five
million, five Hundred Thousand united state dollars) to South Africa and
deposited it in a Security Company with
the intention of using it for the purchase of farm machinery and chemicals
for agricultural Purpose in South
Africa and establishment of a new farm in Swaziland.

This money was deposited in a box as family valuables to avoid much demurrage
in the Security Company. On the 29
January 2003 the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party
trooped into our compound and axed
my husband to death and my second son of 28yrs. Since then they have been
terrorizing my son VUYO but he managed to escape to neighbouring country
South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee).

His position in South Africa does not permit him to open an account or to
operate any business. That is why I want this
fund to be transferred in your account so that you will assist him to invest
the money in your country. If you accept to assist us, all I want from you
is to arrange and come down to Johannesburg South Africa so that you can
help him to open a non-resident bank account in your name which will aid
us in transferring the money into your nominatingaccount overseas.

I have two options for you, firstly, you can choose to have certain percentage
of the money for nominating your account in this transaction or we can go
into partnership with you for the proper profitable investment of the money
in your country whichever the option you want feel free to notify him. He
will then furnish you with every detail you need to know.

We have also mapped out 5% of the total sum for any expenses that might
be incurred during the time of this
transaction. If you do not prefer a partnership, we are willing to give
you 25% of the money while the remaining 70% will remain for my family,
if you are really capable and willing to assist us please contact him immediately
in South Africa with this telephone +27-84-765-9131, or e-mail address confitransactn01@yahoo.com

Finally please treat this matter as urgent as possible. Thanks for you?re
mutual co-operation. I`m expecting your
soonest and urgent response.

Best Regards,

MRS AUDREY MABUZA.





































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