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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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Please note about this email:

Fraud email example:

From: "michael moyo" <mmkkyo@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: michael_moyo2003@yahoo.co.in
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:56:52 +0000
Subject: PRIVATE MESSAGE


FROM: MR MICHAEL MOYO

ADDRESS: 121 NELSON MANDELA, AVENUE,
SANDTON, JOHANNESBURG,
R.S.A.
PHONE: +27-82-673-5252,
ALTERNATE EMAIL: mm_my_2@yahoo.co.uk


ATTN: The Director/Owner

                                             URGENT AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

How are you? I know you may be surprised to receive this letter, please consider this letter as a request from a friend, Firstly, I am  MR MICHAEL MOYO the son of Late MR.DAMBA K.MOYO who was recently murdered in the land dispute in Zimbabwe.
I got your contact through the South African Trade and Business Information services and I assure you that nobody knows about this transaction  except my family . Before the death of my father. He took me to Johannesburg to deposit the sum of US$25.5 Million (Twenty  Five  Million ,Five Hundred  Thousand United States Dollars) in a private Security Company, when He foresaw  the looming danger in Zimbabwe. This money was deposited as family  valuables to avoid much demurrage cost from the Security Company.

This amount was meant for the purchase of new machines and chemicals for the farms and also for the establishment of a new farm in Swaziland. The land disputes started when Zimbabwe President MR. ROBERT MUGABE  introduced a new Land Act/ reform, which wholly affected the rich white farmers
and some few black farmers. This resulted to many killings by Zimbabwe war  veterans and some unscrupulous elements in the society. read more about the situation::
:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html

In fact, a lot of people were killed because of this land reformed Act for which my father  was one of the victims. It is on this background that My family and I, who are currently staying in South Africa as refugees decided to transfer my father's money to a foreign country since the laws of South Africa prohibits refugees from opening any bank account or to be involved in any financial  transaction throughout the territory of South Africa.

Please, I need your assistance to transfer this fund to your trusted overseas bank account. For your efforts and assistance, I have agreed to give you 30% of the total sum, while 5% is mapped out to re-imburse all the
expenses you will incur in the course of this transaction and 65% will be for my family's investment in your country.

Please note that this transaction is 100% Trouble free and Risk-Free on both sides, as I have made arrangements for a successful deal. As  such the only thing I ask from you is total assistance to transfer this
money complete trust and assurance that my own part of money will be safe
when transferred to your account.

Kindly, keep this business proposal highly confidential for security  reasons. If you are interested in assisting me, call or send email to me through my above email address and include your private and fax numbers for
easy communications.

Thanking you in anticipation to your co-operation.

Looking forward to your urgent reply, God Bless.

Sincerely yours,

MR MICHAEL MOYO .(For The Family)



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