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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: "SUSAN KASANGA" <susankasanga1@msn.com>
Reply-To: susankasanga@email.ro
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 02:01:58 +0000
Subject: Waiting

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Miss SUSAN KASANGA. I am the eldest Dugther of Late MR.KASANGA
THAMBO of Zuma district in ZIMBABWE.
This might be a surprise to you on how I got your contact address. It was
from the ZIMBABWE chambers of commerce and Industry.
Consequent upon the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe by the
supportersof President Mugabe, to claim all the white owned farms to his
party members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrender
their farmlands to his party members and his supporters.

My dad was among the rich and well known farmers in Zimbabwe, and due to the
fact that he did not support such an obnoxio retrogressive policy of MUGABE
his farm was invaded by MUGABES thugs and everything in the farm, including
my dad were destroyed. He died in the process and all the valuables in the
farm were looted and those they couldn't loot, were destroyed.

However, before his death, he had deposited with a security firm, the sum of
$8.5m USD(Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars} for
safe keeping due to the heat that was turned on the opposition by MUGABE but
the security company does not know the content of the consignment since he
registerred it as treasure. It therefore became imperative that we had to
move to South Africa, where he had deposited the money with a
securitycompany, which he declared as valuables and family treasures.

Meanwile, the consignment has been moved by the security company to their
Off-shore Office. I am therefore constrained to make this contact in order
to seek your help in moving this fund out from the security firm.

Our status as an asylum seekers does not permit us to operate any account in
South Africa. My family would be willing to offer you 30 percent of the
total sum as follows : (a) 25% for your assistance, (b) 5% mapped for any
contingent expenses that may be incurred in the course of the transaction. ,
while Sixty percent (70%) will be for me and my family which we may hope to
reinvest in your economy.

Only if you would personally assure me that you would not sit on this money
when transfered into your designated account overseas.
I would be glad to hear from you as soon as you receive this message showing
your interest to offer your assistance on this mail box or any of the above
email, as time is of great essence to rap up this project. You can see more
details about my situation and BBC interviews on the website below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2187981.stm .

Thanks and God bless you.

Regards.

MISS. SUSAN K.THAMBO



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