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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: richardzuma2005@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:46:48 +0200
Subject: PLEASE ASSIST ME.HOPING TO HEARING FROM YOU.

FROM:MR.RICHARD ZUMA
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
PHONE:+0027-73-798-9031
EMAIL:richardzuma2005@hotmail.com

ATTN:HELMUT.
URGENT ASSISTANCE
You may be surprise to receive this letter from me since you do not know me personally. First, let me introduce myself, I am MR.RICHARD ZUMA, the son of MR KUNDA ZUMA, who was recently murdered in the land dispute in ZIMBABWE.I got your contact address from trade and exhibition center here in SOUTH AFRICA when I was making an intensive research for my family investment
In your country then I disseded to contact you dirtily and you are the only person I have contacted
In this transaction hoping you will not let me down

Before the death of my father, he had taken me to Johannesburg to deposit the sum of US$19.520 Million [NINETEEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS] in one of the private security companies as if he foresaw the looming danger in ZIMBABWE. The money was deposited in a box as gemstones to avoid much demurrage from the Security Company and also to keep every eye off from knowing that the box content is physical cash.
This amount was meant for the purchase of new machines and farmland in SWAZILAND, but unfortunately land dispute and problems from our President Mr. Robert Mugabe took over in Zimbabwe. This land problem came when ZIMBABWEAN president ROBERT MUGABE introduced a new land act reform, which affected the rich white farmers and some few black farmers.

This resulted in killing and mob actions by the Zimbabwean war veterans and some lunatics in the society. Infact a lot of people were killed which my father was one of them because of this land reform act. I am afraid of establishing here in South Africa for the fear of going through the same experience in future since both countries have similar political history. Moreover, The South African foreign exchange policy does not allow such investment for an asylum seeker.

As a businessman whom i have to entrust my future and that of my family in his hand, I must let you know that this transaction is risk free. If you accept to assist me and my family, all I want you to do for me is to arrange and come to Johannesburg South Africa, so that you can open a non resident Bank account which will aid us in transferring the money into any account you will nominate overseas, and to enable us see face to face and discuss investment opportunities.

This money i intend to use for investment. I have two options for you, first, you choose to have certain percentage of the money for nominating your account for this transaction, or you can go into partnership with our family for the proper investment of the money in your country, which ever the option you want, be free to notify me.
I have also mapped out 6% of this money for all kinds of expense incurred in the process of this transaction, If you do not prefer a partnership, I am willing to give you 18% of the money while the remaining 76%will be for my investment in your country. Contact us with the above telephone numbers or with our e-mail address, while you maintain absolute secrecy and confidentiality required in this transaction, as we want to keep everything secret because bad people are everywhere who might be jealous on hearing that such amount of money is coming into your account, please maintain the secrecy and confidentiality as these funds remains our only surviving hope and future.

Remain bless.
Yours faithfully,

RICHARD ZUMA
(For the family).

N/B MY MOTHER AND I HAVE ALSO CONTACTED A BANKER WHO WILL ALSO HELP US FOR THE TRANSFER

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