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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: "mike makani" <sammakani2@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:29:48 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS ASSISTANCE AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

FROM:MR.SAM MAKANI
TEL:27-83-239-4363


ATTN SIR ,
MY REF:FAMILY ASSISTANCE/INVESMENT PARTNERSHIP.

This letter is not intended to cause you any embarrassment in whatever
form,rather compel to contact your esteemed self,following knowledge of your
high repute and trustworthiness,is borne out of this dificult situation that
our family has been engulfed out since my father the bread winner of the
family was force to relinguish his position.

My name is MR.SAM MAKANI,the son of MR.HENRY SMITH MAKANI of Kwekwe province
in Zimbabwe.During the current war crisis against the farmers in Zimbabwe
from the support of President Robert Mugabe,because on his envy and
greediness to claim all the white owned farms for his party members and his
followers,he ordered all white farmers to surrender all their farms(lands)to
his party members and his followers.

My father(MR.HENRY SMITH MAKANI of a blessed memory) is one of the best
farmers in the country and because he did not support Robert Mugabe ideas,he
ordered his supporters to invaded my father's farm and burnt everything in
the farm in asmuch as killing my beloved father with two of his workers who
was at the farm with him and made away with a lot of items in my father's
farm.(19 Jan 2001,friday around 3.30 pm) Before his death, my father
deposited with a security company in (Gauteng Province)Johannesburg,South
Africa the sum of USD$22.3Million dollars(twenty two million three thousand
United State Dollars)as family valuables.

This money is for the opening of the new 285 of acares of farm land in
Shiselweni Village near Umbuluzi river in Swaziland which my father
negotiated to buy with the help of the Swaziland Monarch king Suboza Mswati
(111) as well as buying tractors for the newly site which my father had made
all the enquiries from NEW LONDON TRACTORS & EQUIPMENT.ROUTE 460 WEST OF
LYNCHBURG LONDON.

After the daeth of my father as the bread winner of the family,I dicided to
move to Republic of South Africa where my father had deposited the money in
the security company as family valuables to withdraw it and put to use.

My hope was turn down as it is against the constutional human right law of
South Africa that asulym seeker,refugee in their country have no right to
have an account with there bank or to have an enterprise in their
country.This he showed me in Green Paper on International Refugee (SECTION
22 ACT NO 13 OF 1998) prohibits it and failure to comply on this is against
the SECTION 37 (B1 and B9) of the South African refugee laws which was in
the agreement with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in
1983.After all this I dicided to seek for an advice for the best way to
retrieve this money (U.N.H.C.R.)they advised me that the best way for me is
to contact an oversea partner so that he or she can help me because as
asylum seekers here in South Africa,human right law prohibit them from
opperating bank account.

So I dicided to contact you so that you can assist me to move this fund out
of South Africa because of my restricted right here in South Africa as
asylum seeker.
With this money,I intend using it for investment growth in your country.As I
have two options for you,(A)firstly you can choose to have a certain
percentage of the money for norminating your account for this transaction.

(B) or you can go into partnership with me for the proper profitable
investment of the money in your country.Whichever the option you want feel
free to notify me.I have also maped out 5% of the totatl money for all kinds
of expenses we might incure in this process of this transaction.
But if you do not prefer a partnership with me,for your rewarding kindness I
will offer you 25% of the total money while the remaining 70% will remain
for me which I will use for my investment and you will still help me in
investing this money in your country as you can understand that I do not
have any knowledge of international business.Would you be of kind enough to
assist me. if you need further details concerning this business ,please do
not hesitate to contact me.all documents concerning this transaction and
money will be available to you on request. I must then emphasize that this
operation or transaction is highlym confidential and is to be kept as such.

If this proposal is of interest you, provide me with private phone and fax
numbers,and you can call me on this my phone for more details.

I am looking forward for your reply soonest.
Thanks and best regards,
SAM MAKANI(UNBEHALF OF THE FAMILY)

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