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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: fatima Zobaa <fatima_zobaa@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:28:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: A Plead For Urgent Family Assistance


TEL: + 27-840-812-460 FAX: + 27- 866-010-855 EMAIL+ suman33yusuff@yahoo.com

ATTN: DIRECTOR/CEO I know that you will be surprised to receive this letter. Please consider this letter as a request from a family in dire need of help. I am wife of Usman Zobaa from , Darfur Sudan,
My husband Mr. Usman Zobaa was the owner of Zobaa sea food industry in darfur region who got a farm land in darfur region and supplier of central Africa food and surrounding countries with sea food till the government find out that darfur region got oil resource which was discovered by an individual who group called their organization rebel movement (the meaning war lord).
The government and rebel movement are fighting over who will inherit the darfur region because of the oil land and rebel movement are killing all the people in the darfur region so that they will inherit the land and my husband farmland, office and our residential are build together. The rebel movement came on daylight and murdered my husband in cold blood during office hour and all his workers.
My husband moved 20 million dollar to South Africa in 2002 for establishment of another branch in southern Africa; the fund was deposited in Security Company without anybody of his family awareness of the deposit. When I came back home to find my husband in a cold of blood and the first thing that came into my mind was last night he was telling me about the discovery of oil refinery he discovered in his farmland without knowing that those murder called their self rebel movement have discovered the oil hole that lead them to murder my husband and all his staffs.
Now the rebel movement turned against us looking for the remaining evidence family of Omar to kill us and we don’t have any other options than to run for our life which lead us into South Africa for better safety to seek asylum seeker as refugee. We met my late husband lawyer here in South Africa who lead us to deposit and inherit fund of my late husband estate that was deposited in Security Company.
Now the whole documents has been handover to us by his lawyer but base on refugee law system of south Africa which is effecting us and we where advised to seek a foreign partner for transfer of this fund. We are already to offer you 20% while the remaining 80% will go to our family.
As soon as you get this message, please contact my elder son MR YUSUFF USMAN on this number +27-840-812-460 you can E-MAIL him with the above mile because of my poor English and also l need your private telephone and fax numbers. The assurance I will always give you is that this transaction is 100% risk free, as I do not want any thing to happen to this money.
Best regards,
MRS FATIMAH ZOBAA




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