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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: "peter martins" <petermartins164za@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:24:21 +0000
Subject: FAMILY REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE

FROM: PETER MARTINS.

TEL: +27 731-72-7521

E.MAIL:
petermartins164za@hotmail.com

FAMILY REQUEST:

ATTN: DIRECTOR CEO

I know you will be surprised to read from me, but please consider this letter as a request from a family in dare need of assistance. Firstly, I must introduce myself; I am MR PETER MARTINS, from Angola. I am the first and only son of BRIGADIER ARNORLD MARTINS. I am presently residing in South Africa.  I got your address in the course of a discreet search from a reliable person in the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry. I on behalf of my widowed mother MRS VIVIAN MARTINS, decided to solicit for your assistance to transfer the sum of US$23.5 MILLION (Twenty Three Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) inherited from my late father into your private or company's account. Before his death, he was a brigadier in charge of arms and ammunition procurement for the Angolan armed forces.  In his "Will He specifically drew my attention to US$23.5 MILLION, which he deposited in a safe box of a private Security Company in Johannesburg, South Africa.

IN FACT MY FATHER SAID IN HIS WILL AND I "QUOTE",

"My beloved son, I wish to draw your attention to US$23.5 MILLION (Twenty Three Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). I deposited the box containing the fund in a private security company in Johannesburg South Africa. During the war I was very dedicated and committed to winning the war against the rebels until I found out that the senior army officers and government functionaries were busy helping themselves with government funds and property sending them to foreign countries. Due to this, when I and the former special adviser to the president were assigned by the president (Jose Edward Santos) to purchase some arms in South Africa, when Nelson Mandela former president of South Africa stopped selling of arms and ammunitions to war countries in Africa I saw this as a golden opportunity to divert the money and we divided it and I got the total sum of US$23.5 MILLION. In case of my absence on earth as a result of death only, you should solicit for assistance of a reliable and sincere foreign partner to assist you to transfer this money out of South Africa for investment purpose. I deposited the box in your name and it can be claimed by you alone with the depository code. Take good care of your mother and your two sisters. Do not come back to Angola, until the war is over and beware of enemies in our family kindred that are related to us in Libito.

From the above, you will understand that the lives and future of my family depends on this money as such, I will be grateful if you can assist us, we are now living in South Africa as political asylum seekers and the financial laws and regulations of the Republic of South Africa does not permit us certain financial rights. In view of this, I cannot invest this fund in South Africa hence I am asking you to assist me to transfer it out of South Africa for investment purpose. For your efforts, we are prepared to offer you 25% of the total fund while 5% will be set aside for any expenses incurred between yourself and me 3% for the charity home in your country (THE NEEDS) while we keep 67% for our investment in your country.

Final modalities on how the transfer will be done will be conveyed to you once we have established trust and confidence between ourselves.  Please treat this matter

as urgent.

Best Regards,

MR PETER MARTINS



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