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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: "Mark Zuma" <markzm20@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: markzuma@myway.com
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:12:05 +0000
Subject: FROM MR. MARK ZUMA

FROM MR. MARK ZUMA
15 A Louis Botha Avenue,
Fellside Cape Town, Republic of South Africa.
Phone : +27 72 449 6758


{THIS IS URGENT FROM SOUTH AFRICA}



Attn,

RE: TRANSFER OF US $30 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business. Though, this
medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it
because it still remains the fastest medium of communication. However, this
correspondence is official and private, and it should be treated as such.


At first I will like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and
trouble free to both parties.

My name is Mr. Mark Zuma, I work as the operational manager in account
management section in charge of credit and foreign bills of one of a prime
banks here in South Africa. On a routine inspection I discovered a dormant
domiciliary account with a Balance Of US$30,000. 00 (Thirty Million U.S
dollars only}.

The account holder[The deceased] was believed to be incharge of formal
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein secret CRUDE OIL transactions in Africa
before his death. On further discreet investigation, I also discovered that
the account holder has died long ago with his family on a fatal
Auto-accident leaving no beneficiary to the account and no other person
knows about this account.

I am in close contact with the manager of the bank here who is my partner
and he is willing to approve the transfer to any reliable and trustworthy
foreigner with foreign bank account because the former operator of the a/c
is a foreigner.

I am certainly sure that he has no writen or oral WILL attached to the
account , no beneficiary and nobody will come again for the claim of this
money. It is only a foreigner who can claim this money with legal claims to
the account holder which I will provide to you if you are interested,
therefore I need your cooperation in this transaction. This money will
remain useless in this dormant account if I did not transfer the fund out to
a foreign account.

I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to
claim this money. I only need your cooperation as a foreigner to provide
your safe bank account information for the transfer. All arrangement that
will ensure a smooth transfer of the fund to the account which you are to
nominate is already in place.

You should provide me with your correct account information for the transfer
and your direct cell phone lines for easy communication. I wish for utmost
confidentiality in handling this transaction. At the conclussion of this
transaction, your share will be 30% of the total transfer sum, 65% for me
and my partner while 5% will be set aside for any expenses both parties
might incure during the process of the transfer.

The fund will be transferred to your account in two parts. I will first
transfer USD 15 Million to your account as a test transfer.

I will fly over to meet you after the successful transfer for sharing
according to the agreed percentages. I will have the remaining balance of
USD 15 Million transferred to your account only after the successful sharing
of the first transfer without any disappointment from your
side.

Let me hear from you URGENTLY by Email or my private number +27 72 449 6758

Best Regards,
Mr. Mark Zuma

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