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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: "JOHNEGONDI SAVIMBI" <johnegondi1960@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:33:10 +0000
Subject: John Egondi Savimbi

From John Egondi Savimbi
Email;savimbijohnegondi200@yahoo.com.mx
 
 Dear Brother,
 
 I got your contact and other details from a Business Directory
courtesy of the International Chamber of commerce and Industry,of my
country. 
 
I am Mr John Egondi Savimbi. My father was the External Affiars
Minister in the government of Angola rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi. At
the mid of the rebellion which is still on till this day, my father thinking
fast dicided to send me and my mother out of Angola because the fate
of our country was yet to be decided.
 
  My mother and I left Angola for swazland with a total sum of US$15.5
Million (Fifteen million ,five hundred thousand US Dollars), sealed in a
diplomatic baggage meant for the purchase of arms from South Africa
On Arrival in swazland, because we are  political asylum seekers, we were
not allowed to operate a bank account.
 
 Meanwhile the said money was deposited with a security company in
europe which i will disclose to you upo your axceptance.  So with the
instruction of my father , I contacted our family lawyer to deposited
the money in a security company.
 
 Though I instructed him not to reveal the content of the baggage to
the security company nor declare the actual content to it, because we
wanted to be on safer side.
 
 I instructed him to tell them them that the baggage belongs to my
foreign affiliate who is the beneficiary of the item.and will come
for claims when ever he is ready, Unfortunately, because of my fathers
political position and influence he was assasinated.   Since then, we
have been looking for a reliable and trustworthy person to help us trasfer this
money into a foreign account overseas prior to invest in that country
or any other conducive country overseas. But it has to be a less tax demanding
country .

Luckily, I got your contact and I decided to contact you and see if you can be
of any help to us .  what i want you to realy do for me is present
you as the onwer of the consignment as all the legal documents to back up
the claims will be processed by the lawyer with your information as
the depositor based on the explanations given to the security company.
Also,i will want you to nogociate a profitable business for
investment because i will invest my own share of the money in your country and
an accormodation for residing,should it be that there will be any
finiacial involvenment in caurse,you will also assist .
 
  To this effect,We intend to share this money as follows: 1. 20% of
the total sum will be for you for all the assistance.. 2. 5% of the
total sum will be set aside to balance back all bills and expenses incurred
in the  process of this transaction. 3. 75% of the total sum will be
for me and my family for investment in any country of which you will be a
guide to us. 
 
Please, note that this transaction is 100% risk-free on your side as
we have concluded all modalities to aid this transfer. Should this meet
your utmost consideration, please give me your earliest reply through
my e-mail address and send a copy to 
savimbijohnegondi200@yahoo.com.mx
 
  Be kind to provide me with your communication facilities for a
hitch- free and confidential link. Feel free to ask questions you consider
necessary. This confidentiality in this transaction can not be over
emphasized as I trust and believe that you will oblige us the needed
security and attention it demands. Please treat this transaction with absolute
confidentiality.
 
Yours Faithfully
John Egondi Savimbi 
 savimbijohnegondi200@yahoo.com.mx



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