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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: "NGOZI MADENSELA" <daveclarksings@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ngozi@india.com
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:52:06 +0200
Subject: PLEASE REPLY SOON TRUSTING ON YOU

GREETINGS

In appreciation of your esteemed contact, which I got
through a reliable source and the choice of your
country for investment, I wish to introduce myself. I
Am Mr. Ngozi the eldest son of Chief Nathan Madonsela
from Zimbabwe, in the southern part of Africa. My
father was amongst the few black farmers who were
assassinated in Zimbabwe, by the agents of the ruling
government of President Mugabe for their alleged
Support and sympathy for the Zimbabwean opposition
party, which is dominated and controlled by whites. He
was also alleged to be involved in the smuggling of
The country's Gold and Diamond resources.

The assassination arose from the land dispute in
Zimbabwe. This land dispute
Was caused by President Mugabe's introduction of new
land policy which adversely affected the rich white
farmers. Some blacks vehemently condemned the land use
act introduced by the government, this problem
metamorphosed into a serious and uncontrollable mayhem
And killings of all war veterans by the political
thugs.

Few week before this awful Tragedy, which was publish
in our weekly news paper me my Family move to South
Africa were we live now as a refugee and Not to my
knowledge that my father, out of intuition felt that
something might happen made some deposit of the sum of
US$10.000.000.00 Million (Ten Million United States
Dollars Only} with one of the known bank out of his
hard earned job and on our stay here in South Africa,
His attorney notifies us of his will and as I was
going through it we discover that my father blessed
memory deposited some certain amount in a
bank/security private volt for safe keeping note
letting them know it content ,but he declare it as
valuable belonging to has foreign business partners.

. After one week, we learnt about the assassination of
my father and the burning down of our house by
political thugs, since then, we have been living in
South Africa as refugees having sought for that status
on political grounds. In a joint agreement between my
humble mother and me, we have agreed as the attorney
advice since my father made this deposited that it
belong to a certain foreign business partner for safe
keeping that we look for a trustworthy foreign person
who will help us to claim and transfer this money into
his bank account.

Please be aware that this transaction is 100%
risk-free, as modalities for the easy and smooth
transfer of this fund have been arranged and also I
have already file inn application for this claim with
the relevant document in my position and my
application was approved as the next of kin to this
fund, But do to the international/South African
Banking law as a Refugee I am not allow to operate and
own bank account that is why I sort you assistance to
help claim this Fund.

Thank you as I look forward to getting your reply in
this regard.

Best regards,
Mr. Ngozi Madonsela.



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