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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: "johnson motene" <johnson1za_motene@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:50:41 +0000
Subject: Re: Thanks

Dear Garren,

Thank you very much for your response to my e-mail letter of business
proposal, however I can assured you that I am more than pleased to go into
partnership with you in as much as you are willing to co-operate with me.

Also I want to use this medium to reassure you that this proposal of mine is
I00% safe and legit so I will appreciate you treat it with every seriousness
it deserve so that we can achieve our objective in this regards. More so,
like I had initially stated in my previous mail, I am the director of audit
and project implementation of department of Transport South Africa, so be
rest assured that I am in the position to make this project fruitful as long
as you are willing to take my instructions. Note also that I have the
appropriate documents that will give you the perception of understanding
that this is a legal project without any harmful intent, its only because I
am a civil servant that I am seeking your assistance other wise I would have
had the transaction done on my own without seeking anyone’s assistance.

Further more, in other for us to have the funds transferred to the account
you will nominate in the nearest future there are procedures that we need to
implement such as having to launch a formal application for the payment of
the said contract entitlement to the foreign payment unit of my department
who will then make a recommendation to the contract payment office and the
South African reserve bank to transfer the said funds to your nominated bank
account, at the same time we would need to incorporate the company you would
want to use for this exercise here with the department of Trade and Industry
as well be able to apply for the transfer of privilege of the company I had
used to secure the fund in favor of your newly incorporated company.

Be informed that we have to follow all this procedures so that every aspect
of our claim will be legit whereby you will have no difficulties in
receiving the funds. Also as soon as the fund is secured and transferred to
your account I will travel to meet with you for the sharing and investment
of my shares of the proceed over there in your country under your
supervision and directives.

If really interested I will appreciate you furnish me with the following:

(1) your names in full
(2) copy of your international passport or drivers license
(3) residential or office address
(4) direct contact numbers Telephone and Fax

I await your prompt response.

Regards,

Dr. Johnson Motene.

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