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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: "chipadzif arms" <chipadzifarms12@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:53:08 +0000
Subject: ASSISTANCE/INVESTMENT.

FROM: MRS CHIPADZI PILI ,
ZIMBABWE.
EMAIL: mrschipadzi@yahoo.ca




ASSISTANCE/INVESTMENT.

DEAR Friend,

You may be surprised to receive this letter since you don't know me
personally,
I am MRS CHIPADZI PILI , the wife of late MR CHIPADZI MOORE
who was murdered in the land dispute in Zimbabwe.I am writing from
Zimbabwe.

I got your address from the internet through the consultancy directory
during my
search for a reliable and honest person to transact this business with.I
write to
solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical
government
led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party- president Robert Mugabe.

Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly
sponsored
the war veterans and some irrate party members to disposess the land being
occupied
by white farmers.This action has led to the killing of some members of
opposition
party including my husband(MOORE CHIPADZI), For more information see this

site www.zimbabwesituation.com/farmilist.html, page 2 number 518
6088 .

But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he
deposited
the sum ofUS$15.4m (Fifteen million four hundered Thousand United States
Dollars)in
the name of our only son RAYMOND ,with the help of reputable security
company in
SOUTH AFRICA with the intention of using it to open fertilizer manufacturing
company
among other companies in our neighbouring country (Swaziland)after his
university
education.


On the 29th of June 2000, the war veterans and some supporters of
(ZANU-PF)ruling
party trooped into our compound and axed him(my husband) to death. Since
then, they
have been terrorizing my only son, MOORE CHIPADZI JR, but he managed to
escape to
a neighbouring country, South Africa as a political asylum
seeker(refugee).But his
position in South Africa does not permit him to open an account or run any
huge
financial business.

Subsequently, the South African development community (SADC) has
continuously
supported Mugabe's new land reform act. It is against this background that
my son
have decided to transfer my husband's money into a foreign account.


That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your private account so
that you
will assist him to invest it in your country. Hence,if you agree to assist
us, we
will offer you 20% of the money for your assistance, 10% will be for the
possible
expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 70% will be for
our
family investment in your country through your assistance. I need your
urgent and
confidential response.

Best regards,
MRS CHIPADZI PILI.
FOR THE FAMILY

Upon your immediate response, I will immediately arrange and send to you all
the
informations that will empower your good self in finalizing the transaction
with the
security company in SOUTH AFRICA I will also send to you the agreement that
will
protect both interest. And also further information about yourself is
necessary
for i can not play on this.

( MY SON PHONE NUMBER IN SOUTH AFRICA +27 82 7951208)


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