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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: "david dlamin" <daviddlamin0002@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:04:55 +0000
Subject: PLEASE HELP ME

DAVID DLAMIN
JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA
daviddlamin0002@hotmail.com
TELL:+27-82-644-99-49

ATT:


This letter is to enable you to be my good beneficiary in this my urgent
problem. I am looking for a person and also a foreign national who I can
trust for all my financial responsibilities. My name is David Dlamin and my
father Mr. Almon Dlamin who was killed by the Zimbabwean veterans because he
was a rich black farmer who was not in the same political party as our
president Robert Mugabe and also he was not in support of his wicked plans
to chase out white farmers in my country Zimbabwe.

Am writing this letter from South Africa where am staying as a refugee.
Infact I want somebody who can give me special assistance because my family
had suffered seriously under the hands of a wicked political party ruled by
president Robert Mugabe (Zanu-Pf). This was a problem of land dispute in my
country Zimbabwe. The government secretly planed a war on white farmers and
as a result so many people lost their lives. The people who died are those
who never supported the war on white farmers and also who never supported
Mugabe’s wicked ways. My father was one of those who died.

Before my father died he told us that he had already deposited some money, $
18 million in my mother’s name to a security company here in South Africa,
to enable us establish a dairy farm country close to us that is Botswana.
But just last month she became seriously ill which nobody knows what is
going to be her fate as she knew what was going to happen she took me to our
family lawyer who has just changed every documents regarding this money in
my name. That is why she told me to contact a foreign national who we can
tranfer this money to his account because we fear same incident might occur
here in South Africa.

My father was killed on the of 20th march 2003. The ruling party came to our
house and killed him. Since that time we ran to South Africa me and my
mother Here we staying as refugees and our rights are very limited which
means we are neither permitted to work. That is why we would like this money
to be transferred into your account urgently so that you can help us invest
in your own country where we know we will have peace of mind.

We would be happy if you respond urgently to this letter on this email
address above so that we can discuss what percentage you would take in
helping us and also what kind of investment we can make in your country.

Waiting for you reply soonest and God Bless you.

David dlamin

NB;PLEASE FORWARD ME WITH YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR EASY COMMUNICATION.

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