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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: "fro miss grace" <kabgrace103@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kabgrace102@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:43:47 +0100
Subject: God bless

dearest ,
God bless your day,and how are you doing?

Please accept my apology if my mode of contacting you
will in any way offend you. I am compelled to contact
you via this medium for obvious reasons which you will
understand when we discuss details of my proposition.
it's truth that we have not known our slef , but i will not hide any of my feelings to you and i want you to know me more, am under united high commussion for refugees,yes deu to family problems,
so am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since i have noting to do thats why am contacting you for help since i have lost my parents that i was thire pet,you can go through this web news and read about my family problems in zimbabwe.
hence i decided to write to you about this issue, i will like to be very frank to you,befor the death of my late father,he had taken me to here (senegal) to deposit the some us$8.500,000.00,(eight million five hundred thousand united state dollars) in the bank here in senegal, as if he knows what that
is going to happen , this money was deposited by my name as next of kin to the fund, and am here with all the documents and deposit certifcate of the money,
this amount was meant for the purchase of new machines,chemicals for the farm and establishment of my father's farmland in swaziland,This land problem came when Zimbabwean President Mr. Robert Mugabe introduced a new land act reform, which wholly affected the rich white farmers and some few black farmers. This resulted in the killing and mob action of Zimbabwean war veterans and some lunatics in the society.In fact a lot of people were killed because of this land reform act of which my father was one of the victims,
so my dear i will like you to help me claim this money from the bank to your caccount for security reasons, and it's against this background that am corrently in senegaland i decide to transfer my fathers money to foreign country since the law of senegal proibits the regugees from opening any bank account, and as only child of my father I am saddled with responsibility of seeking a genuine foreign account where this money could be transferred into without the knowledge of my government who are bent on taking everything we have. All I seek for is an honest businessman, whom I can entrust my future and I must also let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free. If you accept to assist me, we will embark without further delay on the next step for the transfer of this money out of senegal based on the arrangements I have made so far.
This money I intend to use for my investment and growth in your country. I have two options for you; firstly, you can choose to have certain percentage of the money for nominating your account for this transaction. Or you can go into partnership with me for the proper profitable investment of this money in your country. Whichever options you want feel free to notify me. I have also mapped out 5% of this money for all kinds of expenses we might incure in the process of this transaction.
If you do not prefer a partnership, I am willing to give 15% of the money while the remaining 80% will remain for me and If you are really capable and willing to assist me please, get back to me,Finally, please treat this matter as urgent as possible. I am daring need to leave this country since I cannot invest the amount here in senegal due to their restrictions on Asylum Seekers. But if on the contrary you cannot assist, please keep my having contacted you confidential.Thank you in anticipation of your kind understanding and immediate response
while repling me, pls i need your private number to call you and your fax number.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/ <http://takemail.com/Redirect/www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html <http://takemail.com/Redirect/www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html>
love from
Grace




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