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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: "Mrs Juliet Kamara" <stevecity87@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: juliet_kamara1@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:54:34 -0900
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP

Dear Sir/Madam,

With due respect, trust and humility, I write to you irrespective of the
fact that you do not know me, but please do consider this letter as a
request from a widow and family in dare need of assistance You may be
surprised to receive this letter from me since you don't know me personally.
I am Mrs Juliet kamara ,wife of Late Mr Martin kamara, a famous zimbabwean
farmer who was murdered in a farm land dispute in Zimbabwe.

I got your contact through a search on the internet, I do not know your
person but I am relying on faith to see me through. During the war waged
against the farmers in Zimbabwe by the supporters and cohorts of President
Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country, my late
husband belonged to one of the classes of farmers also targeted by the
ZANU-PF armed group, because he did not support their ideas and policies of
taking white farmers land by force.

Black war veterans claiming to be farmers, invaded my husband's house on
April 17, 2000 at about 8.35p in Macheke/Virginia district and murdered him
because of his insistence that white farmers be allowed to retain their
farmlands despite the recently introduced land reforms "Act" in Zimbabwe by
the head of state, President Robert Mugabe. Until his death he was one of
the prominent members of the Zimbabwean Farmers' Union (ZFU).

But before my husbands death, he first escaped safely into Europe with his
life time fortune of 12.5m US Dollars(twelve Million, five hundred US
dollars)cash, important documents of property title and other valuables
which were concealed and secured in a trunk box, and transported to Europe
through diplomatic means. The consignment box is currently safely lodged and
secured in the vaults of a private security firm in Europe after which he
returned to zimbabwe while he was killed. The fund was meant for the
purchase of new tractors,machinery and agro-allied chemicals for our new
farms acquired in Swaziland.

This land problem came when President Robert Mugabe introduced a new land
act "Modus Operandi" reform which wholly affected the rich white farmers. A
lot of people were killed because of this land reforms "Act" of which my
late husband was one of the main targets. My husband was solely targeted
because of his support for the white farmers.

YOU CAN GO THROUGH THESE SITE FOR YOUR VERIFICATION.
http://www.natvan.com/free-speech/fs981c.html
http://www.stormfront.org/whitenat/white_farmers_adv.htm
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/zimbabwe_06-08-04.html
http://www.nathanielturner.com/sanctionsonzimbabwe.htm

Based on this,I had to flee the country with my only daughter, my daugther
and i are now in Nigeria as political assylum seekers. We decided to
contact you to assist us in removing this money my husband kept in a
private security company in Europe to your account or any part of the world
for investments as the monetary/investment laws here in Nigeria prohibits
refugees from operating bank accounts or be involved in any
transaction/investment. Based on this, we are contacting you hoping that you
will assist us with this transaction.

As a widow, I am saddled with the responsibility of seeking a genuine and an
honest person who will assist us in investing this money in a highly profit
yeilding ventures without the knowledge of my country(Zimbabwe) government
who are bent on taking everything my late husband had after confiscating all
his farmlands and investments in Zimbabwe . We are absolutely left with
nothing except the money deposited in a private security company.

In recognition of your personal executive powers and investment
opportunities that abound in your country, I solicit for your assistance to
us by moving my family money into your country/ bank account for safekeeping
pending our future arrival for investments in your country.

The family has resolved to adequately offer a share of of 30% of the money
to you for your involvement and assistance to our family in securing this
fund.

while I implore you to maintain absolute confidentiality required in this
transaction. If not, then I humbly apologise for this infringement on your
privacy.

you cam also get me through julietkamara@shuf.com

May GOD bless you. even if you are not willing to help me, may he protect
your family.

Respectfully,

Mrs Juliet kamara.


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