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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: monica shagari <bosiner3@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:09:00 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: FROM MRS MONICA SHAGARI


FROM MRS MONICA SHAGARI ,
Address 17 Refugee road
Sawent, South Africa
P O BOX 1342,

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL...............HELP ME AND MY SON
Dear Friend,
I know that you will be surprised to receive this Letter. Please consider this letter as a request from A family in dare need of help. I am MRS MONICA SHAGARI from Angola, the wife of Brigadier P AUL. L. SHAGARI. I got your Contact through the South African chamber of commerce (S.A.C.C) regarding your trustworthiness. My purpose of contacting you is to help me out of my difficult Condition in view of my husband’s death. I need your Assistance to help me to transfer some money out of South Africa into your personal or Company’s account. The amount involved is US$9.000,000 MILLON ( NINE MILLON UNITED STATES DOLLARS).
My late husband was in charge of arms purchasing for Angolan armed forces and he generated this money in The course of purchasing arms for Angolan armed Forces. He deposited this money with a private Security Company here in South Africa in coded cash And I assure you that nobody knows about this money Except my two sons and me.
All I am asking you is to assist us to transfer this Money out of South Africa for investment purposes. The Reason being that my two sons and I are living in South Africa as political asylum seekers and the Financial laws of South Africa do not allow Asylum Seekers any financial rights, hence I shall be very Grateful if you can assist us. For your efforts, I am Prepared to offer you 15% of the total money while 5% Will be set aside for local and international expenses Incurred during the course of this transaction. As Soon as you get this message, please contact my son MR. MICHAEL SHAGARI with this phone number +27-83 755-8111 The assurance I will always give you is that this Transaction is 100% risk free, as I do not want anything to happen to this money.


Best regards,
MRS. MONICA SHAGARI (FOR THE FAMILY)





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