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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: "Lazarus Savimbi" <lazarus4bb@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: lazarus4bb@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 15:36:49 +0200
Subject: Re: Needed Your Help

Greeting,

Dear I pray to God that this message reaches you in wonderful spirit.I am making this contact with you based on trust and confidence irrespective of the fact that we have not met before and because of the nature of the situation I found myself now. my name is Lazarus Savimbi ,from Angola.i got your email address through the Internet ,when i was searching for a reliable God fearing person,who will not betray me .
There is an information I would like you to keep very confidential.There is sum amount of money my late father {former UNITA leader}General Jonas Malheiro Savimbi deposited in a finance company for safe keeping few months before he was assassinated by the Angolan Military force sometime last year.The squabble happened as over the issue of mineral and allocation resource of diamond using his power and influence to smuggled diamond to the neighboring countries in exchange for money and other valuable assets. Presently, I and my mother presently in Dakar-Senegal.

My father deposited a huge amount of money $12.5 Million US dollars in Finance house and am with the whole documents concerning this deposit that is made for investment . I want to investing this money and I am now contacting you believing you are honest and trustworthy to help me to receive the money in your account for investment by the way of clearing the money from the Finance House and then after forwarding it to your Account for investments. I and my mother has decided to compensating you 20%of the total amount for your assistance.
The Angola government through it\'s various agents has confiscated all my late father known properties since his death.You can find how and when my father was killed in the bbc news:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1839252.stm>
Please do take your time to go through the mail and get back to us, so that I will simply introduce to the Finance house where the fund are being kept now for onward transfer.I am waiting for your response.
Thanks and God bless.
Lazarus Savimbi.
lazarus4aa@hotmail.com


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