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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: "MRS. EVELINE BABATU" <babatu5001@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: babatu500@zwallet.com
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:42:07 +0200
Subject: MRS. EVELINE BABATU

ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR
You may be surprised to receive this mail from me since you don¡¯t know me in person, but for the purpose of introduction. I am MRS.EVENLINE BABATU the wife of the late MR.PEDRO BABATU, who was murdered in a land dispute in Zimbabwe last year by president ROBERT MUGABE of ZIMBABWE LOYALLISTS IN SOUTH AFRICA REGOIN.I got your contact E-mail address while browsing in the internet through the website of investment opportunities and individual profiles in your Country.
Well as a reliable and trustworthy individual to deal with, then I decided to write you. My husband was among the few black Zimbabwean rich farmers were murdered in cold blood by the agent of the ruling government of President ROBERT MUGABE for his alleged support and sympathy for Zimbabwean opposition party that is against MUGABE maltreatment of white farmers through his land reform act.
Before the death of my husband, he took my only son and me to South Africa to deposit the sum of US$10.5Million (Ten Million Five thousand United state Dollars) with a security and deposit company, as if he knew the looming ganger in Zimbabwe.
The money was declared and deposited as family and precious stone to avoid the security company from knowing that the real content of the box is money for security reasons. The money was earmarked for the purchase of machinery and chemicals for my husband business. Problem arose when President ROBERT MUGABE
Introduced a new land act, which did not favor the white rice farmers and some black rich farmers also which my husband is one of them.

This resulted to rampart killing of farmers by ROBERT MUGABE LOYALISTS of which my husband was one of the victims. I and my son Des are currently staying in South Africa as Asylum Seekers planning to transfer this money to a foreign country where we can invest it, I am faces with the dilemma of investing this amount of money in South Africa for fear of encountering the same experience in Future because of constant economic instability in Africa and more South African law does not give A! Asylum Seekers investment opportunity.

This was why we decided to contact you. I must let you know that this business is 100% risk free and the nature of your business does not necessary matter. So if you are willing to assist us to transfer this money out of South Africa to your bank account wherever for investment, I am my son have agreed to appoint
you the trustee of the fund and would give you 10% of the total money, 87% will be for ma and my family, he remaining 3% will be mapped out to offset for the out of the pocket that would be incurred by both you and us during the course of the transaction. Therefore, if you are willing and interested to render the needed assistance, endeavor to contact through my son Mr.Desmond BABATU at Phone number+ is 27-734 227 090 or Email babatu112@yahoo.com Also we need your phone and fax number for easy communication.
Remember that this highly confidential and the success of this business depend on how secret it is kept. Expecting your reply soonest.

Best regards.
MRS. EVELINE BABATU


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