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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: "Nkube Lukas Olds" <nkube_olds@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:01:23 +0200
Subject: Your Assistance Is Higly Needed

Dear sir,

My name is Nkube Lukas Olds, the son
of Mr. Martin M Olds of
blessed memory from Zimbabwe, During the current
crises against the
farmers in Zimbabwe from the supports of
President Robert Mugabe to claim
all the white-owned farms to his party members
and his followers, he
ordered all white farmers to surrender all farms
to his party members and
his followers.
My father is One of the most successful multy
farmers in our country
and because he did not support Mugabe's ideas,
Mugabe's supporters invaded
our farm and burnt everything in the farm,
killing my father and made away
with a lot of items in my fathers farm. Before
his death, my father had the sum of (USD 32, 000,000)thirty two million US Dollars. This money was paid in to The South African Bank of Athens Limited in South Africa so we have to withdraw the money and deposit it to HBZ SECURITY COMPANY.
After the incident, i left Zimbabwe for Austra (Wien) where i seeked asylum.

The entire family have desided to invest this money in a forigne land,
but I can't transfer th money to where I live because
I'm Asylum seeker, not
allowed to operate bank account I want to go into
arrangement by which
I can live in your country and get our money back so that we can invest the money in your country.
We have agreed to
offer you 25% of the total sum for your
assistance as soon as the money
gets into your account.

I want truth and honest to be our watch word in
this transaction and
Pls i will like you to treat this case as a secret for the good out come of it and for my own good intrest to avoid bringing problem for me. All I want you to do
is to send me your
personal phone and fax numbers and also your
ressidencail address for
easy and urgent communication.

I got your e-mail from the people search Directory so i decided to write you so as to see if you can help us out with this transaction.

Please sir i don't mean to disturb you with this mail but is very urgent,



With best regards.

Nkube Lukas Olds.


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