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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: susan shahngu <susan.shabangu_10@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <su_z140sh@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:28:55 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS ASSISTANCE







FROM: MRS. SUSAN SHABANGU
SOUTH AFRICA
Email:


































Dear : Friend
First, let me start by introducing myself,I am MRS SUSAN SHABANGU, a mother of three children and the Deputy Minister of Safety and Security since 29th April 1996 to date under the auspices of the President of South Africa MR THABO MBEKI.After due deliberation with my children, I decided to contact you for your assistance in standing as a beneficiary to the sum of US$30.5M ( Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) You can view my profile at the South African government on line, www.gov.za click on, Contact Information, click on Deputy Minister,then click on Safety and Security finally click on Ms Susan Shabangu and read about me.

I got your contact through the South African Chamber of Commerce in my earnest search for a reliable individual who can assist me to make this transaction a reality.With my believe in you i know that you will never let me down.0r go toexpose it to another person.THE PROPOSAL, After the swearing in ceremony making me the Deputy Minister of Safety and Security, my husband Mr.Ndelebe Shabangu a miner at Kruger Company in South Africa died due to severe cardiac arrest in a South Africa Hospital,
After his death, I discovered that he had some funds in a dollar account which amounted to the sum of US$30.5M with a security and finance institution in South Africa of which I will divulge information to you when I get your full consent and support to go for a change of beneficiary and subsequent transfer of the funds into a comfortable and conducive account of your choice.

I am contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved for payment into a local account, but can only be approved for a foreign account because it was insured and there is aclause in the depository agreement by the Bank and my late husband which states that on Nocondition can any local withdrawal be made from this account unless the money is transfer into my foreign partner account. In effect withdrawals can be made only when the money has transferred from the vaults of the bank to a foreign bank account.

This fund emanated as a result of an over-invoiced contract which he executed with the Government of South Africa. Though I assisted him in getting this contract but I never knew that it was over-invoiced by him. I am afraid that the government of South Africa might start to investigate on contracts awarded from 1990 to date as Mr President was saying in our last conference meeting and If they discover this money in his bank account, they will confiscate it and seize his assets here in South Africa and this will definitely affect my political career in government.
I will see to it that the account is not traced from South Africa. As soon as you have confirmed the fund into your account, I will send my eldest son [Collins] with my Attorney to come to your country to discuss on business investments. For your assistance, I am offering you 20% of the principal sum which amounts to US$6,100.000.00 (Six million One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) However, you have to assure me and also be ready to go into agreement with me that you will not elope with my fund.

If you agree to my terms, kindly as a matter of urgency send me an email. Due to my sensitive position in the South African Government, PLEASE DO NOT CALL ON THE OFFICE LINE, BECAUSE OF THE SENSITIVITY OF THIS TRANSACTION EXCEPT OF THE ABOVE email address.

If you want to speak with my Banker, that is fine and okay by me. You will have to send down your private telephone /fax number so that I can forward it to him to reach you from time to time,to enable the immediate transfer of this fund.Please I do not need to remind you of the need for absolute Confidentiality of this transaction.

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation and my regards to your family.

Yours faithfully, SUSAN SHABANGUDept. Minister Safety & SecuritySouth Africa

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