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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: jongomeni@sify.com
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:45:31 +0200
Subject: Asking for assistance

From:Johnson Ngomeni.
Email address:jongomeni@sify.com
Telephone:+27-83-343-4547
Asking for assistance
Greetings,
You may be surprise to receive this letter since you do not know me personally.
My name is Johnson Ngomeni, the only son of late Dr Ben Ngomeni,
My father Ben Ngomeni, was murdered in a land dispute in zimbabwe.
I got your countries business publication through the chamber of commerce here in Johannesburg, South Africa.
And after going through your business executive profile,I decided to write and seek for your assistance in the problem I have.
During the current Crisis against the farmers of the Zimbabwe by supporters of our president Robert Mugabe, to claim all the white owned farms in our country, he ordered all the white farmers to surrender their farms to his party members and their followers.
My father was one of the black, best farmers in the country and knowing that he did not support the president's political ideology, the president supporters invaded my father's farm burnt down everything, and murdered my father and my two sisters, Nkazi Ngomeni and vuyo Ngomeni and confiscated all my father's investment.

But before the death of my father in the farm land, my father took me to South Africa to deposit the sum of US$18.5 Million United States Dollars with a Security & Finance Company, as if he knew the looming danger in Zimbabwe. The money was deposited as gem of precious stones to avoid much demurrage from the Security Company. This money was meant for buying of new machineries and chemical for farms and establishment of new farms in Lesotho and Swaziland.
I moved to South Africa with my mother, Jessey Ngomeni where we currently residing as asylum seekers. Of late, when we decided to invest this money here in South Africa, I discovered that the laws of this country prohibit asylum seekers the right to investment or to operate any form of bank account.
Hence we contacted you to assist us in transferring this money out of South Africa to your overseas account for our onward investment.
I must let you know that this transaction is 100% risk-free. The nature of your business does not necessarily matter in this transaction. So, if you are willing and interested to assist me, We are willing to give you 25% of the total sum for your assistance, 70% will be for our investment in your country and the remaining 5% will be mapped out for all expenses we may incure during the course of the transaction.
Note that you would also assist us in investing our own share of the money in your country. Finally, if you are interested to assist us in this transaction, I need your urgent reply through the above Telephone and E-mail address.
Do not forget to include your private telephone and fax numbers for easier communication. Please, treat this business proposal with absolute confidentiality as we proceed.
Best Regards,
MR. Johnson Ngomeni.
For the family.
N/B. PLEASE YOU CAN READ ABOUT PROBLEMS IN ZIMBABWE FROM THE LINKS
BELOW.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm.

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