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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Richard Zanki" <rc_zandd@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rich_zaka@consultant.com
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 12:04:07 +0000
Subject: Important

Compliments and please accept my highest regards and esteem. I feel safe
sending you this business proposal having gone through your contact and
remarkable profile on the internet even through this medium (Internet) has
been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still
remain the fastest, surest and above all the most secured medium of
communication. This project requires an urgent and reliable foreigner for
proper handling and smooth execution hence your choice.

I am the auditor-general of a prime bank in South Africa and a member of
foreign payment monitoring team of the same bank. During the course of our
assignments and deliberation, we discovered that HAROLD WHISNEY until his
death was the owner of Defunct WHISNEY ENGINEERING SERVICES PTY SOUTH AFRICA
an industrialist and a foreigner, hence the deceased has a floating account
opened in the bank in 2002 with our institution here in SA and before his
death he has no WILL or Heir and no other person knows about this fund
because after his death his company was liquidated by the management and
from investigations his parents were reported dead as such this fund has
remained unclaimed for four years.

Hence it became imperative to seek for a reliable foreigner therefore I am
soliciting for your assist to transfer the sum of $8.2M from the account of
the deceased who died in an auto crash which took place in South Africa on
21st July, 2003 to safe haven since this fund can only be approved to a
foreigner who has adequate information to lay the claim as the beneficiary
of the fund. Be assured that the necessary information required to establish
this claim will be made available to you in due time as all modalities has
been put in place to ensure the successful transfer of the fund to your
nominated account.

You will be required to furnish us immediately with your banking details,
your phone number so as to enable us seek/secure approvals of the fund from
the appropriate ministries and agencies within 7 banking days of forwarding
your application to the bank. We have therefore resolved to seek your urgent
understanding to partner and collaborate with us as a foreigner with a view
to compensate you adequately upon the successful conclusion of this project.
This transaction will be hitch-free.

We have equally decided for optimum result that this transaction will be
based completely on the following terms and conditions strictly; 60% of the
fund will come to us and 35% goes to you while the remaining 5% is mapped
for contingencies.

I assure you the fullest and absolute co-operation and a hitch-free
operation in this regards. I equally guarantee you total protection
throughout this transaction. You are indeed very free to ask questions you
dime necessary for further clarification and please endeavor to keep secret
all the information concerning this transaction. Your most urgent response
will be highly appreciated through my email in order to avoid my further
contacts.

Regards

Richard Zanki

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