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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: "Prince Mbisi Sobhuza" <princembisi@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: princembisi@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:32:05 -0800
Subject: Enquiry

Dear Sir,
Complement of the day.
Although this my mail message might seem too impromptu and informal
to you meanwhile I am obliged by circumstance to use this medium to
contact you. though I have tried in vain to contact you on phone,
I presume the Thailand network system is down. My name is Prince
Mbisi Sobhuza Son of Late King Sobhuza II of the ruling royal family
of Swaziland and a half brother to the present King Mswati III the
Monarch and President of Swaziland.
I have just escaped from my brother His Majesty the King due to the
fact that I objected to he's getting married to little children of
less than 14yrs including kidnaps of school children and forceful
marriage of teenagers and reckless mis-management of the kingdom
ailing economy. And as such, he sanctioned and placed a ransom on
me that I should be caught dead or alive for disobeying him. I was
one of his closest security aides from the royal family and as such
I taught he could listen to me as his blood brother but unfortunately
he was so obsessed by his power as the commander in-chief that nobody
dare complain or correct any of his misgivings otherwise you will be
accused of planning to upstage the govt.
Please, I would like you to visit these websites www.royalty.nu/Africa/Swaziland.htm
and click swaziland to have a clue of what I mean.
Right now I am temporary in Thailand. I have US$21 Million which
was deposited in a Finance and Security Company in Thailand, by my
father the late king Subhuza ll for my own immediate family, which
I want to transfer to your Country to help me invest it in properties
or any other business that is profit oriented. I am confident that
with your great experience, heaven will the limit for my success.
our father made adequate provisions for all his children but my half
brother the present king has destroyed it all because of greed. why
my father made the choice of saving the money in Thailand is because
of his good relationship with the royal family of Thailand and the
govt during his administration. you may be aware that my brother the
present king paid a visit to Thailand some months ago during His
Majesty the king of Thailand 60Th anniversary which I was in his
company during the tour. however, due to the stress and acute
financial shortage, I am therefore seeking for your permission to
present you to the Security and finance company as my foreign
partner and also assist me to transfer it to your country for
investment, as my father made it clear that the money can only be
released to me when I present a foreign partner that will help me
to invest the money in a business that is profit viable. my father
as you may know is a good investor and want his children to join
with foreign partners in business establishment home or abroad as
that will help us. Honestly, I can not do this business with any of
my relations or friends overseas because I do not know who is
presently working for him to gain favour.
The money is my own immediate family share which was realised from
royalties paid by mining companies and tourism companies in Swaziland
Kingdom over the years.
I solicit your for cooperation and assistance to collect the money
and move to your country to invest. At the conclusion of this
business you will be given 10 percent of the total amount, On receipt
of your positive response I shall forward your information to the
Security and finance company to contact you and sent the necessary
documents and my lawyer will contact you for other necessary
documentations and agreement to protect your reward of 10 percent
share of the total amount and also my own part of the money that
will be transferred into your account. 5 percent of the total money
have also been mapped out for any expenses that might be incurred
during the transaction.
And please for the benefit of doubt I also urge you to make adequate
enquiry about my person. I am looking forward to doing this business
with you on basis of fairness equitably, trustfulness and truth I
look forward to your earliest reply through my email address. be
aware that this transaction is highly confidential for my own security
and the huge amount of money that is involved.
My sincere greetings as I hope you will proffer the much needed
assistance that will see this deal to a fruitful conclusion.
Please get back to me on the above email address or princembisi@gmail.com.
Hope to meet you soon.
Best Regards,
Prince Mbisi Sobhuza.
Kingdom of Swaziland
South Africa



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