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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: trevor dubevusi <trevor_20dube@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:26:40 +0100 (BST)
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL.


JOHANESSBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA

MD/CEO

This letter is meant to contact you believing that you will help us out of this difficult situation that my family has been engulfed in since the dealth of my father who is the bread winner of our family. He was recently murdered in the land dispute in Zimbabwe. So please, consider this as a request from a family in need of assistance.

I am ENGR TREVOR DUBE VUSI from Zimbabwe, the first and the only son of late DR DUBE LAWRENCE VUSI, communicating to you from Johanessburg, Republic of South Africa. On behalf of my family, we decided to solicit for your assistance to transfer the sum of $16.5 Million (Sixtheen, Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) inherited from my father into your company or private bank account.

Before the death of my father, on one of his trips abroad he took me to Johannesburg to deposit the sum $16.5 Million with a private security company as if he forsaw looming danger in Zimbabwe. The money was deposited with security company on our arrival in Johannesburg largely for it's safety. President Mugabe gave this money to my father for investment purposes while they were still in good terms. This land problem arose when president Mugabe who according to my llate father in desperate bid to hold on to power produced a new land act which whilly affected the farmers who were mostly white and some blacks condemned the method adopted by the government and that resulted in the rampant killings, looting and wide mob actions by the veterans and some political parties. My late father was among the few black Zimbabwe farmers murdered in cold blood by the agent of the ruling government of President Robert Mugabe for his alleged opposition against the government new Land Act. He!
ads of
government from the western world especially Britain and the the United States of America have their condemnation against Mugabe actions, as it stands now. I am the only person that have access to the money and the necessary documents needed for it's collection from the security company. You will understand that the lives and future of my family depends on this fund as such I will be grateful if you can assist us. We are now living in South Africa as political assylum seekers and the laws and regulations of South Africa do not permit us certain financial rights. In view of this we are asking for your assistance to assist me to transfer this fund out of South Africa for investment purposes in your country.

For your efforts, we are prepared to offer you 20% of the total sum while 10% will be set aside for any expenes incurred during the process of this transaction and the remaining 70% will be for my family investment in your country.

Please, note that this transaction is risk free and the major thing I ask of you is to assure me of the safety of the money when transferred into your account. Further information and arrangements will commenced as soon as a good relationship is established.

Thank you as I await your urgent response. Please, dont forget to keep every information regarding this transaction highly confidential.

Regard
TREVOR VUSI (ENGR).




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