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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: "mrs rose" <rossywilliams@indiatimes.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: rosemark_2005@yahoo.ca
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:31:31 +0000
Subject: Waiting for your prompt and positive response


FROM:MRS ROSE LAMIN
ADD:270 PHROW PARK
GERMISTO GAUTENG.
ZIMBABWE.


Attn:Good Friend.

ASSISTANCE/INVESTMENT.

This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial; as a matter of urgentcy, i am desparately looking for a foriegn partner whom i can trust to handle some investment or fund movement. I am MRS ROSE LAMIN wife of late MR.MARK LAMIN , who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irrate black people.

I am writing from Zimbabwe. I got your address from the internet through the consultancy directory during my search for a reliable and honest person to transactthis business with. I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party- president Robert Mugabe. Because of land
and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irrate party members to disposess the land being occupied by white farmers. This action has led to the killing of some members of opposition party including my husband(MARK Lamin) who did not support this ill-fated action.

But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he deposited the sum of US$30m (Thirty million United States Dollars) in the name of our only son ' DAVID at a reputable security company in Ghana with the intention of using it to open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our neighbouring country (Swaziland) after his university education.

On the 29th of July, 2001, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF)ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him(my husband) to death. Since then, they have been terrorizing my only son, DAVID LAMIN, but he managed to escape to a neighbouring country,GHANA as a political asylum seeker (refugee). But his position in GHANA does not
permit him to open an account or run any huge financial business. That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your private account so that you will assist him to invest it in your country.

Hence,if you agree to assist us, we will offer you 20% of the money for your assistance, 10% will be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 70% will be for our family investment in your country through your assistance. I need your urgent and confidential response.

Best Regards,
MRS ROSE LAMIN.
FOR THE FAMILY

Upon your immediate response, I will immediately arrange and send to you all the INFORMATIONS that will empower your smooth transaction with the security company in GHANA and I will also send to you the agreement that will protect both interest. And also further information about yourself is necessary for i can not play on this.My alternate Email address is roselamin_20052hotmail.com) .

You can as well read more about the crises in my country and about this
situation on the following sites:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html



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