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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Eunice Shima" <eunice_shima@msn.com>
Reply-To: shima@teenmail.co.za
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:21:25 +0000
Subject: Confidential

FROM: MRS EUNICE SHIMA

First and Foremost, I am Mrs. Eunice Shima from Zimbabwe.

We are a family that need help from you, we are from Zimbabwe the south of
Africa and we are farmers but we are having a very big problems with the
President Mr. Robert Mugabe because my husband said that what he is doing to
the white farmers is bad by seizing there farmlands and there personal
belonging and also sending his mobs and aids to destroy there property.

My husband was killed by his aids and they confisticated all our properties
so me and my two children had to ran to Chad a small country where we did
not know anybody for safety and we are now seeking asylum, but the help we
need from you is to help us claim the sum of nine million dollars
(9,000,000.00 dollars) that my husband left or deposited in a finance house
before his untimely death.

We cannot go and make the claim and if we try the President have people all
over that will know and they will seize the funds, so I , Mrs. Shima is
writing to you in person after I saw your banking experience and as a big
brother nation to help us and claim this fund you can stand as a partner to
my late husband and send to the finance house an application for claim or
retransfer of the funds to your account and you will have 30% of the total
amount and if you like invest our share in your country but it's very
important you help us to come over to your great country.

Please forward all response to my confidential email: shima@teenmail.co.za
Thank you and God bless us all.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs. U. Shima


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