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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: humphery mackay201 <humpherymackay201@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 08:07:05 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FAMILY ASSISTANC FUND TRANSFER (A CRY FOR HELP)


From: HUMPHERY MACKAY
Email: humpherymackay201 @yahoo.co.uk
Direct Contact: 27-73-307-2272

Cape Town South Africa.

Good day.

Dear Sir/Madam





My name is HUMPHERY MACKAY The eldest son of MR. FRANCIS MACKAY, of Zimbabwe. You might be surprised as to where I got your contact address from; I got it from the South African Chamber of Commerce in Johannesburg.
During the current war against commercial farmers in Zimbabwe from the support of our PRESIDENT. ROBERT MUGABE, to claim all the white owned farms in the country, all the white farmers were ordered to surrender all their farms to his party members and his followers. My father was one of the best farmers in our country and because he did not support Mugabe’s idea, mugabe’s supporters invaded my father’s farm, killed my father, made way with a lot of items from my father’s farm and burnt everything else.

After my father’s death, when I was going through his files, I found out that there is an amount of money which he deposited in a private security company in Johannesburg, South Africa, as if he knew what was going to happen in the future. My mother and I, together with my younger sister decided to move out of Zimbabwe to South Africa. The amount deposited into the Security Company is US$26.M (TWENTY SIX MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS).

I have now decided to contact an overseas person/firm, who will assist me to move this money out of South Africa because we are asylum seekers here in South Africa, and the law here does not permit us to exercise financial rights.
If you consider this proposal, we have agreed to give you the total sum of 20% for assisting us to move this money to your country and 10% is mapped out for the expenses that may be incurred during this transaction and 70% will be for me and my family to invest in you country. I will like you to furnish me with your personal details, phone number for easy communication and also account details. You can contact me on my direct phone number +27-73-307-2272 through my private e-mail: (humpherymackay201 @yahoo.co.uk] And modalities on how this transaction will be done shall be revealed to you once we establish trust between ourselves.

Note: This transaction is 100% risk free and is absolutely confidential.

Thanks and God Bless.

Humphery Mackay

[For the family]




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