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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "geofrey.jnr_lucky sibanda geofrey.jnr_lucky sibanda"
<geofrey.jnr_lsibanda_za@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: geofrey.jnr_lsibanda@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:13:03 +0000
Subject: Family Shattered By A Tyrannical Government.

N0.167 MILTON AVENUE RIVONIA
SANTON,JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL: 27-83 871 3702.

Attn: Corina,

Good day, i am LUCKY GEOFREY (JNR) SIBANDA the eldest son of late
Mr.GEOFREY SIBANDA of Zimbabwe.
I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a
tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party-
president Robert Mugabe.Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe,
the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irrate
party members to disposess the land being occupied by white farmers.This
action has led to the killing of some members of opposition party including
my father.( For more information see this site
www.zimbabwesituation.com/farmilist.html )

But before his death, my father had deposited with one of the security
company in Johannesburg South Africa, the sum of US15, 4 million (Fifteen
million four hundered Thousand United States Dollars) with the help of
reputable security company in SOUTH AFRICA with the intention of using it to
open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our
neighbouring country (Swaziland) after my university education.

On the 29th of June 2000, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF)
ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him(my father) to death.
Since then, they have been terrorizing me and my entire family,but my widow
mother Mrs.CHIDO-CHEMUOYO SIBANDA,I and my two younger sister’s, managed to
escape to a neighbouring country, South Africa as a political asylum
seeker`s (refugee).But our position in South Africa does not permit him to
open an account or run any huge financial business.Subsequently, the South
African development community (SADC) has continuously supported Mugabe's new
land reform act. It is against this background that we have decided to
transfer my father's money into a foreign account.

That was our main reason to transfer into your private account so that you
will assist him to invest it in your country. Hence,if you agree to assist
us, We have agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum for your assistance, 5%
have been mapped out for expenses, and 70% for our family venture.

Upon your immediate response, I will immediately arrange and send to you all
the informations that will empower your good self in finalizing the
transaction with the security company in SOUTH AFRICA I will also send to
you the agreement that will protect both interest. And also further
information about yourself is necessary for i can not play on this.
In that regard,we would advise you to contact us immediately through this
telephone number = Tel: 27-83 871 3702. OR
email:geofrey.jnr_lsibanda@yahoo.com.

Thanks and may the good God bless you and your family.

Best regards,

Lucky Geofrey (Jnr) Sibanda.
(For the family)

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