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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: "carlos oyenga" <willcarlos8@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:46:09 +0200
Subject: TRUSTEE

FROM: MR. CARLOS A. OYENGA
TEL: +27-83-7660225
E-MAIL;willcarlos@hotmail.com

ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR / CEO

STRICTLY PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL.

I know you will be surprised to read from me, but please consider this
letter as a request from a family in dare need of assistance. Firstly I must
introduce myself. I am Mr. Carlos A. Oyenga from Angola. I am the first and
the only son of the late Brigadier Joe Oyenga. I am presently residing in
South Africa.

I got your contact from a business directory in Johannesburg Chamber of
Commerce and Industry. On behalf of my widowed mother Mrs. Chantel Oyenga, I
decided to solicit for your assistance to transfer the sum of US$25.5Million
(Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollar) inherited
from my late father into your personal/company account. Before his death he
was a brigadier in charge of arms and ammunition procurement for the Angolan
army.
In his “WILL”, he specifically drew my attention to US$25.5M, which he
deposited in a safe box in a private Security Company in Johannesburg South
Africa, as a treasure box fully documented in my name (Carlos Oyenga).

In fact my father said and I quote: “My beloved son, I wish to draw your
attention to US$25.5M (Twenty Five Million Five Hundred United States
Dollar). I deposited the box containing the fund in a Security Company in
Johannesburg, South Africa. During the war I was dedicated and committed to
winning the war against the rebels until I found out that senior official
and government functionaries were busy helping themselves with government
funds and properties and sending them to foreign countries. Due to this when
the former special advisor to the President and I were assigned by President
(Jose Eduardo Santos) to purchase arms in South Africa, we saw this as a
golden opportunity and diverted the money shared it and I got a total sum of
US$25.5Million. In case of my absence on earth as a result of death only,
you should solicit for fund investment purposes”.

From the above, you will understand that the lives and future of my family
depend on this money, as such, I will be grateful if you can assist us. We
are now living in South Africa as political asylum seeker and financial laws
and regulation of South Africa do not permit asylum seekers financial rights
to such huge amount of money. In view of this, I cannot invest in South
Africa, hence I am prepared to offer you 20% of the total fund, while 10%
will be set aside for local and international expenses and 70% will be kept
for my family and me.

Finally, modalities on the transfer will be conveyed to you once we have
established trust and confidence between ourselves. Please treat this matter
as very urgent.

For easy comunication and confidentiality of this transaction,please get
back to me through this confidentia E-mail; ( willcarlos@hotmail.com)

Best regards,


MR. CARLOS A. OYENGA.

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