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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: "Morgan Yuri" <yuri@sps-sa.org> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 03:05:40 +0100
Subject:

Dear Sir.

My name is Morgan Yuri, the elder's son of Mr. Smith Yuri of Zimbabwe. During the current crisis against the farmers of Zimbabwe by the supporters of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country, he ordered all the white and rich black farmers to surrender their farms to his party members and their follower.
My father was one of the farmers in the country and a major
financier/sponsor of the opposition party [Movement for Democratic Change MDC, and knowing that my father did not support the president Political ideology, the president's supporters invaded my father's farm, kill him and took over it.
After the death of my father, my mother and I with my younger brother decided to move out of Zimbabwe for the safety of our lives. We took along with us the US$22.7 Million we get from the auctioning of our estates, farms and other businesses belonging to our family.
The funds are presently being kept away in the secret vaults of a private security firm based here in London. The officials of the firm believe they are helping me in keeping my personal Valuables, not realizing, that it is money.
My self and my mother have decided to contact any reliable overseas firm/person who could assist us to transfer this money out of The London.
At the moment we are in Israel and we think this place is safe for us from the oppression in my country. Because we as asylum seeker here in Israel cannot travel out of this country easily we have decided for you to help us in carrying out this transaction on our behalf.
To conclude this transaction you have to be willing to travel and help us for humanity seek and not what you are going to gain.
If my proposition is considered, for assisting us to transfer this money to your nominated account, we will offer you 20% of the total fund, and 5% of the total will be set aside to cover any expenses incurred during this transaction, 75% will be for me and my family to invest in other businesses in your country.

For detailed information, you can contact me on this: e-mail
address; yurimorgan1@yahoo.com. I will like you to give me your private phone and fax number in your reply to this mail.
NOTE: THE KEY WORD TO THIS TRANSACTION IS ABSOLUTE CONFIDENTIALITY AND DESCIPLINE. THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% RISK FREE. YOUR URGENT RESPONSE WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED.
Best Regards,
Morgan Yuri.








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