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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: "MADAM ELIMA KUTTI" <elimakutti4@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kunteelima500@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:13:26 +0200
Subject: Urgent family business assistance/From Madam Elima Kutti

NO. 42 PRETORIOUS STREET
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
PHONE:+27-73-240-5804

ATT:THE PRESIDENT/C.E.O

Our present situation have made us to decide to send you this email
which I am sure will come to you as a surprise. Please we mean you no harm only we are in a desperate situation and need urgent help. After going through this email it will be your decision, whether to help this
bereaved family or to leave us to our faith, but whatever you decide, bear
in mind, we are in trouble and need help and you are our only hope.

I am MADAM ELIMA KUTTI, the wife of late THAMBA KUTTI the
Zimbabwean farm lord, one of the major victims in the land reform crisis
in Zimbabwe.You might have read or heard about it.

We obtain your contacts privately and decided to contact you in view of your nature of business and confirmed reliability. We tried to telephone you in vain and so decided to send you this email.Our country Zimbabwe is in a near civil war with no end in sight.

The President Robert Mugabe had introduced a new land reform act meant to deprive and relocate all the major Farms in Zimbabwe. This has resulted in the Zimbabwean war veteran and black mob killing, looting and displacing the entire major farms in Zimbabwe.

Thousand have been killed and my husband plus my three children are one of the major victims, as we own one of the biggest modern farms in the Southern Africa region. My husband might have sensed his death due to the rage and killing because shortly before he was murdered in cold blooded, he took me to South Africa with our first son David to deposit the sum of US$30.000.000.00 (thirty million united dollars) into a security and finance house in South Africa, it was deposited as a family valuable to avoid unnecessary attention and high demurrage payment as this money was actually meant for the development and building of anultra modern farms in Southern African region with all it machineries, pipe born water, electricity, chemicals etc, only he did not live to accomplish this dream.

Faced with this situation, I ran to South Africa with my remaining family were we are now, to claim these funds (US$ 30.000.000.00) since it
was lodged in through me and I have in my possession all the necessary
documents. We had plan to invest this money in South Africa, but because of our status here as an Asylum Seeker we are not allow any investment or financial rights not even to operate a bank account in the country coupled with the nearness of South African to our country and so that is our decision to move out of Africa.

I am close to 50 years old and our uncle is over 60 years we cannot continue to live in fear. We are seeking for an outside assistant -YOU -(as ourfriend who was in exertly the same situation successfully did) to help us receive this money through your personal or company’s account as the beneficiary to it. Every arrangement and all the clearance paper and permit for the transfer have been obtained and we can send you copies of it.

Please do understand that there is no risk of any kind involve in this,
as you will confirm, all that we require of you is your reliability and
trustworthiness not to take advantage of our vulnerable position in
this. We will discuses the modalities and your percentages as soon as we hear from you.

This money is all we have left for my remaining family and me. Being in exile is not easy at my age with family, coupled with my ill health due to the trauma from what I have been through. More so I will need your assistant to help my remaining family and me migrate over immediately this fund is transferred to your account.

We need not remind you of the confidential and private nature of this,
please keep this all this information very confidential at all cost.

Please contact my son David or our uncle Austine they are presently in
charge due to my ill health on this e-mail address immediately,kunteelima500@yahoo.co.in, we are
running out of time due to the expiration of our resident permit here.

May God be with you and your family, and grant you the strength and
wisdom to help us.

Remain blessed.

Best regards
MADAM ELIMA KUTTI


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