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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: "Eric" <godhelpzulufamily@excite.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:22:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Urgent call from Zimbabwe/Zulu family


















Dear Amarjit Singh This is Eric Zulu of Zimbabwe, I contacting you in regard of my late fathers found that was transfer from Barleys Bank Zimbabwe to there affiliated Bank in Paris France, I need your urgent assist to stand for me as my late father foreign business partner, so that they can transfer the found to your nominated Account, the problem we are facing now is beyond explanation, Precedent Robert Mugabe kill my father because of land dispute, in my country, now he is even after our life and wealth of my father, he has froze one of my late father Account be for my he was kill by his assassin, so before then he has already make the first transfer of the 18.5 Million United State Dollars from Zimbabwe to Paris for safe keeping and onward transfer so I need your full support and your honesty in this transaction, and you have to keep this secrete and very confidential, All I need you to do is this, first you will permit me to look for a Barrister who will help us obtain
the legal document to which you will have access to the founds, because I want the document of the founds to be change to your names, you know eyes are on my fathers wealth, so if they can make change of names and ownership to your name then we don’t have problem, so I will want you to respond as soon as you get this email so that i can know the next step to take ok before end of the day here I can get a barrister that will help us of the change of name and ownership Hope to read from you soonEric Zulu





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