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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: "MIKE LAMBART" <johnsonkennedy_zuma01@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 18:53:13 +0200
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

FROM: MR JOHNSON  KENNEDY  ZUMA

11 KOTZE STREET,

JOHANNESBURG,


SOUTH AFRICA


TEL,+27-83-764 4992

ATTN: Dear Sir /  Madam

                    URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

You will be surprised to receive this letter since you dont know me personally, but do treat this request as a call from somebody in dire need of your kind assitance. For the purpose of introduction, I am Mr Johnson  kennedy Zuma ,the First son Dr. samuel Zuma, who was recently murdered with other white farmers in the land dispute violence in Zimbabwe  last  two years. In my keen interest to invest in your country, I got your contact through South African Information Exchange here in Johannesburg, South Africa, and decided to write for your assistanace.

My late Father was among the few black Zimbabwean rich farmers murdered in cold blood by the Killer Squard of the ruling government of President Robert Mugabe on the 12th of March, 2002 for his alleged support and sympath for the Zimbabwean opposition party controlled by whites and this crisis and cold-blood murder reports were communicated to the whole world through BBC, CNN and even United Nations General Assembly meetings for heads of governments of member nations.

Before his death, he had taken me to Johannesburg where he deposited the sum of USD.18,000,000.00(Eighteen Million United States Dollars) with a security and finance company for safe keeping as if he foresaw the looming danger that could erupt from the farm struggle in Zimbabwe. This money ws deposited in a box as a consignment labelled 'Family Teasure', with the security company. This was infored as not to allow the company management have the knowledge of the real content of the box for obvious safety reasons. This money was earmarked for the purchase of machineries and agro-chemical for the farms and the establishment of new farms-settlements in Lesotho  and Swaziland.

I have two options for you, firstly you can choose to have certain percentage of the money for nominating your account for this transaction, Or you can go into partnership with me for the proper profitable investment of the money in your country. Which ever the option you want, feel free to notify me. I have also mapped out 5% of this money for all kinds of expenses we might incure in the process of this transaction. If you do not prefer a partnership I am willing to give you 20% of the money while the remaining 75% will remain for me and my family.

This land problem arose when President robert Mugabe introduced a new land acts which wholly affected the rich white farmers and some objective blacks. This resulted to forceful ejection of whites from their lands, rampant killings , arson and mob actions by the war veteran and some political thugs. Precisely, more than one hundred and seven people have been killed and many others maimed for life in the past and up till July 2002, BBC,CNN have reported of more killings in the farm-land violence. Heads of government from the Western World, espiecially Britain and the United States of America have voiced their condemnation over Mugabe's obnoxious land acts.

The South African Development community (SADC) has continued to support Mugabe's new Land Reform Acts. It is against this background that I and my family who are currently staying in South Africa have decided to transfer this money out of South Africa into a trust foreign account.

As the First son of my Father, I am saddled with the responsibility of seeking a genuine forein account where this money could be transferred to, without the knowledge of Zimbabwean government who have tactivally frozen my family's weath, secondly, my Mother is presently sick of Heart Disease and the need to fly him out for a medical operation is very important. But how can we fly without this fund. Presently, we are resideing temporarily in Johannesburg pending the out come of an appeal filed on our behalf by our attorney for the Depart of Home Affairs to grant us asylum status. At the moment we are in dilemma to the fiscal laws inhibiting south Africa Refugees on moneytary policy. We request that this proposal should be granted so that we can be able to transfer this money to your nominated account outside South Africa for investment purposes.

As a business man who I wish to entrust my future and that of my family in his hands, I must let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free as far as you keep it secret, the modatlities to this transfer is ready with the help of our family lawyer, a member of a Bank Board, a South African who by his help we finished all the arrangements the way this money should be transferred easily. But the problem we are facing is now to get an honest and responsible person that can keep this money safe and stand as beneficiary.

If you can sincerely assist us with the whole of your heart to transfer this fund into your nominated bank account, please, send a return mail to me as quickly as possible, give me your confidential phone and fax numbers for more informations.You can also contact me with this my private E-mail address:johnsonkennedyzuma01@yahoo.co.in

Please, respond to enable me know your decision.

Yours sincerely

Mr  Johnson  Kennedy Zuma

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