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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: Cyril Ramaphosa <privatecyrilllll@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:31:18 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED(UPDATE)


My Dear ,
Thanks for your reply. How are you and all in your
household,i hope and pray all is well with you and your
family. I want you to understand that i am a christian and
God fearing Man . I have prayed to God to give me an honest
person and God fearing whom i can trust never to betray
me.I pray you will not let me down when our money will be
in your full possession.

I want you to understand that this transaction is
real,100% Risk free and will be very successful when the
both of us co-operate and have trust and confidence in each other.
I want to assure you that as long as we co-operate fully and trust ourselves
we are going to have this money into our possession through
you as you are going to stand as the Sole Beneficiary of
the Late Depositor's money which he left in my Bank without
a specified Beneficiary/I nheritor.

It's my pleasure to introduce my-self to you. My full real
name is Cyril Ramaphosa , I am a director in charge of computing
auditor of (STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA) JOHANNESBURG
BRANCH (SBG). I am 52 yrs old. I have been a banker for
over 21yrs now after obtaining my Degree from a South
African university in the field of finance.
My family and I live in my Bank staff quarters here in
Johannesburg. I have a wife and 4 children.
My dear , Concerning this fund deposited in my Bank for
long without any written specific inheritor/next of kin.
The Original depositor of this sum $43M Dollars has been
long dead, following my bank research to get to the
relations of this late Depositor (MR MARCUS KHAN)
Yielded no result to the Executive Board Of Directors in my
Bank.

I have now decided to contact a foreigner, which is you to
understand about this transaction and lets invest this
money overseas through the release of this fund in your
name as the newly Beneficiary to the late Depositor.
I will present details of yours to my Executive Board Of
Directors in my Bank, that you are the Original
Inheritor/Beneficiary of this fund. The Reserve Bank Of
South Africa (RSBSA) will approve the money for final
payment. With these Step, you and I can have this money
and invest it properly.

I will send to you my private phone line and a copy of my picture including my
Wife(Rita) in my next mail to you. Please i want you to
send yours too so we can know each other more better.
Before we move to the next step. These below
information’s are necessary for the preparation of this

transaction in my Bank which are follows:
1.YOUR FULL NAME AND AGE: This is important for the
change of original late depositors name to yours as
the newly inheritor of this sum $43M.

2:OCCUPATION AND YOUR STATUS.

3:COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND RESIDENCE.

4:PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS.

It is very important that you send the above informations so that i can start all necessary documentation processing that will make you the original inheritor of the money and your name approved for payment.

Waiting for your urgent response and HAPPY XMAS.

My greetings to you, and God bless.
Best Regards,
Cyril.

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