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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: "paull maseko" <paullmaseko6@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:41:22 +0200
Subject: RE: TRANSFER OF 18. MILLION

RE: TRANSFER OF 18. MILLION
Dear Sir/ Madam,
 
Don’t be surprised to receive this letter, I am PAULL  MASEKO, son of
(Mr. ANGUS MASEKO  A TABCCO FARMS ZIMBWABWE) my father was murdered by  Zimbabwe veterans and critic lack people of ZANU-PF ruling party, if you are conversant with CNN AFRICA.Before the death of my father on the 29th of Feb 2003, he was a prosperous tobacco and coffee farmer who has invested much in agricultural sector and a very major sponsor of the opposition party MOVEMENT OF DEMOCRATIC CHANGE).
President ROBERT MUGABE and his ZANU-PF ruling party with the new land reform system, the government land being occupied by whites and some rich farms who are opposing his consistent stay in power and radical and unnecessary reforms targeted to ehumanizing his political opponents and high rate of abuse of human rights which led to the killing of some members of
opposition party including my father, MR ANGUS MASEKO.
I acknowledge very well that my father deposited the sum of (U$18)
Eighteen
Million, United States Dollars, with a security and financial company
here in the Johannesburg, South Africa with the intention of using it for the
purchase of new farm machineries and chemicals for agricultural purpose
as well as purchasing hectares of land in Zimbabwe. Your contact was 
courtesy of Republic of South Africa information network online. With the high risk of staying in my country we are now on political asylum (refugee) here in Republic of South Africa, my position does not allow me to open an
account
or to normalize this fund to any meaningful business transaction, I
want you
to understand that this is purely family fund not money laundering
affair.I solicit for your honest assistance to a family shattered by lyric
government. I want this fund to be transferred to your nominated
account
overseas, with your partnership; I will invest in your country. I and
my mother have agreed to offer you 25% of the fund for your kind
assistance then 5% will be for any possible expenses that might occur in the process of
the transaction while 70% will before my family investment in your
country. Be assured that all the necessary documents backing this fund have been  this transaction.

THESE ARE USEFUL LINKS THAT WILL HELP YOU TO SEE THE CURRENT LAND
CRISES IN MY COUNTRY ZIMBABWE FOR NOW.JUST COPY THESE LINKS TO VIEW
http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/dec4.html
http://www.amren.com/006issue/006issue.html#cover
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/06/24/zimbabwe.farmers/
http://www.amren.com/0105issue/0105issue.htm#namibia
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/zimbabwe/index.php

Practically, once you show your willingness to assist us, we can
arrange of
when to come down here in South Africa. Hoping to hear from you
soonest,  I
need your urgent and confident
response towards this matter .

Yours sincerely

PAULL MASEKO (MR).



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