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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: familysitholeza007@tsamail.co.za
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:41:43 +0200
Subject: CRY FOR HELP

E-mail:familysitholeza007@tsamail.co.za

ATTN:President & CEO.

CRY FOR HELP

Good day,

I found your contact from the industrial computer search here in South Africa,for you are liable and
capable foreign partner that will assist me and my family. I am Mrs. MARY SITHOLE,the wife of ( Late)
Mr. TIMOTHYSITHOLE.of Zimbabwe. During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from the support
of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country, all the white farmers
were ordered to surrender their farms to his party members and his followers.
My husband who was one of the best farmers in our country and treasury of the farmer's co-operation did
not support his ideas and so the party members invaded my husband's farms and burnt everything in the farm,
killed my husband and made away with a lot of items in my husband's farm. Afterthe death of my husband,
my children and I decided tomove out of Zimbabwe because of our lives were in danger with the money that
my husband kept in his hidden safe in my house.
The amount contained in the safe in my house is US$32M(Thirty Two Million USD) and we decided to code the
money and move to the Republic of South Africa wherewe deposited the money in a security company as valuable
item. So I decided to make a contact with an overseas firm whom will assist me to move this money out of
South Africa security company, because we are asylum seekers here in South Africa.
So if you consider this proposa, we have agreed togive you 20% of the total sum for helping us to move this
money out to your country and 5% will be mappedout for expenses both of us may participate in thistransaction,
and 75% will be for me and my family to invest in your country. what i want from you is your personal
telephone and fax numbers for easy communication. I look forward to your reply through my email.
familysitholeza@yahoo.com
Thanks
Best regards.
Mrs.MARY SITHOLE. (For the Family) Contact my son JOHN SITHOLE








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