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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: sizibamartins897 martins <sizibamartins897@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:43:40 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CONTRACT





From,Siziba Martins
Department Of Housing
Corner Soundowns $Kerk.
Bramfontein
Regional Represantatives
Johannesburg
Republic Of South Africa
Tell; 27 83 521 70 52

My name is Mr. Siziba Martins. I am a director in department of Housing in Republic of South Africa. I was the chairman ContractTenders Board in the department. In 1998, I personally monitored and supervised the ward of contract for the construction of ultra modern shopping complexes and low cost housing units in some part of the country.During the award of the contract,
I and one of my colleague serving in the board inflated the contract to the tune of US$45.5 Million.

At the completion of the contract, the real contract sum was paid to the original contractor, leaving the excess US$8.3Million which we reported to the National government that it belongs to thesubcontractors that handled part of the original contract.Now, this amount is due for payment and is just floating in the treasury not attached to anyone. We are only two people who know the origin of this fund, but we cannot claim it by ourselves. Therefore we are looking for reliable foreign company/individual whose name we can use to claim this money.

This is strictly a business deal, and we are going to use our official position to make sure the transaction gets approval.For your co-operation, we have agreed to give you 25% of the total sum( US$8.5M) 70% will be for me and my partner, while 5% will be for any miscellaneous expenses that might be incurred in the process of this transaction.Please if you interested in being part of this transaction, kindly get back to me through the above e-mail account.

Best regards,

Mr. Siziba Martins.




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