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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: "Collins Dorman" <dormancollinspvt1@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: dormancollinspvt1@o2.pl
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 20:09:28 +0200
Subject: URGENT FUND TRANSFER ASSISTANCE


URGENT FUND TRANSFER ASSISTANCE


Dear One,


This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial, as a matter of urgency, i am desparately looking for a foriegn partner whom i can trust to handle some investment or fund movement. I am mr Collins dorman son of late MR. Edward DORMAN, who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irrate black people.I got your address from the internet through the consultancy directory during my search for a reliable and honest person to transact this business with. 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 partymembers 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(DORMAN EDWARD ) who did not support this ill-fated action.But before the death of my father, he anticipated some dangers and so he deposited the sum of US$6.5m (six million five hundered Thousand United States Dollars) in my name at a reputable security company in EUROPE with the intention of using it to open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our neighbouring country (Swaziland)after his university education. On the 29th of July, 2001, 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,That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your private account so that you will assist me to invest it in your country.

Hence,if you agree to assist me, i will offer you 15% of the money for your assistance, 5% will be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while the remaining will be for our investment in your country through your assistance.

I need your urgent and confidential response.


Upon your immediate response, I will immediately arrange and send to you all the INFORMATIONS that will empower your smooth transaction with the security company and I will also send to you the agreement that will protect both interest. And further information about yourself is necessary for i can not play on this.You can as well read more about the crises in my country and about this situation on the following sites: <http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/>

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html>


Please reply to my private email address:dormancollinspvt1@o2.pl

Waiting for your prompt and positive response ..

Regards.

Collins Dorman.


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