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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: l mashala <lmashala8@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <larry515mashala@yahoo.ca>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:58:59 +0200
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL



TELL +27-73430-2122
EMAIL (larry515mashala@yahoo.ca)

URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Sir or madam

I AM MR, ZMAIL LARRY MASHALA the son of MR JOHN MASHALA from Zimbabwe. It might be a surprise to you where I got your contact from South Africa information network online {SA} trade centre {SA} During the current crises against the farmers of Zimbabwe by the supporter of our president Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country, my father were one of farmers to surrender their farms to his party members and their followers. My father was one of the best farmers in the country and knowing that he did not support the president’s political ideology, the president’s supporters invaded my father’s farm. Burnt down everything shot him and as a result of the wounds sustained he became sick and died after two days and after his death, I decided to move out of Zimbabwe for the safety of our lives to South Africa

But, before he died he wrote his wheel which reads my beloved son I wish to draw your attention to the sum of {TEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS} {US$10 MILLION} which I deposited in a box with a security company in south Africa in case of my absence on earth caused by death only, you should solicit for a reliable foreign partner to assist you to transfer this money in your name, and it can be claimed by you alone with the deposit code, all the documents, are with your mother take care of the family, from the above you will understand that the live and future of my family depends on this money as much I will be very grateful if you can assist us, we are now living in south Africa as a political asylum seekers and the financial law of south Africa does not allow asylum seekers certain financial rights to such huge amount of money.

In view of this I cannot invest this money in south Africa hence I am asking you to assist us to transfer this money out of south Africa for investment purposes. For your efforts I am prepared to offer you 25% of the total sum while 5%will be set aside for local and international expenses and 70%will be kept for my family and I finally, modalities on how the transfer will be done will be conveyed to you once we establish trust and confidence between ourselves. Looking forward to your urgent reply

NOTE: THE KEY WORD TO THIS TRANSACTION ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENCAL AND SECRACY. THIS TRANSACTION IS 100%RISK FREE. YOUR URGENT RESPONSE WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED.AND GIVE ME YOUR PRIVATE PHONE AND FAX NUMBER TO CONTACT YOU

FROM MR ZMAIL LARRY MASHALA
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