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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: yoma@webmail.co.za
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:39:07 +0200
Subject: CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY

My name is Dr Clinton Yoma,the dentist in jakaranda Med.
Hospital Pretoria. I am also brother at st peter's catholic church.
Four days ago we
visited the church for prayer and after the prayers, a woman
approached me and
narrated her life story. Her name is Mrs. AMANDA.A. NKOSI
and she is a member of WOMEX in Zimbabwe.


Her husband was a big farmer and victim of the crises in
Zimbabwe which was as a result of a new land act reform
introduced by President Robert Mugabe. As the manager of
her husband farms, she keeps all important documents for
her husband. Among the documents is a file containing
documents her late husband used to deposit fund
with a security and finance company here in South Africa.
According to her, this money was meant for the purchase of
new machines and chemicals for the farms and establishments
of a new farm in Swaziland.

After narrating this story, I asked her to see me the
following day with the file containing fund depositing
documents. When I saw the document and the amount involved
USD28.2M (Twenty eight million two hundred thousand
dollars). Because of my position and what is happening in
the world today, I and my attorney took her to the security
and finance company for verifications and we confirmed
everything as genuine and original.

This woman is a refugee here in South Africa and refugees
are not allowed to open bank accounts or involved in any
financial
transactions in South Africa. Also this fund is in dollars
and must require a foreigner for the claims.

I am writing this letter to entrust the life / future of
this woman
and her family to you believing that you will not betray
the trus! t and confidence I may have in you. All I am
asking is your assistance to claim and transfer this fund
to your bank account in your country or your overseas
nominated bank account keeping this fund in your custody
for this woman and her family to join you for a proper
investment under your supervision.

The woman has agreed on two options of compensation for
your assistance. Firstly you can choose to have a certain
percentage of the money or go into partnership with her for
a proper profitable investment of the money in your
country. If you do not prefer a partnership, she is willing
to give you 25% of the total fund. She has also mapped out
5% of the total fund for all kinds of expenses that might
be incurred in the process of the transaction.

If you are willing to assist this woman, please contact me
immediately on my e-mail address above.

Best Regards,
Dr Clinton Yoma

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