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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: "KGMC PTY LTD. SA" <kgmc.z.maloid@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <kgmc.ext604@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:00:06 +0000
Subject: Re: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY - PROPOSAL.



Dear Sir,

My name is Mr. Daniel Maloi. I am contacting you with trust and confidence that you may be willing to cooperate with me for the execution of the business discribed hereof. I am using this email communication due to the fact that the business itself required confidentiality. Moreover, I am a reputable managing director of the KGMC (Kruger Gold Mining Corporation) also a member of the South African ruling Party (ANC). Sequel to my purpose of contacting you, my colleagues and I who were in charge of disbursement and payments to foreign and local contractors who has executed contracts in this revenue of Gold Mining Industry, we are presently in possession of US$11,800,000.00 (Eleven Million Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollard).which accrued from over invoicing of contract payments to our foreign contractors who had executed contracts through our office/department. Subsequently, the contract has been accomplished and the contractors has been fully paid. Due to our status as civil servants and also members of the ruling Party, it is impossible and inadvisable for us to pay in such amount of money in our respective bank accounts. Sequel to this reason, I have been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues, to solicit for the cooperation of a foreign businessman, companies or individual to whom we could transfer the money to his or her foreign bank account as a contract completion payment. Thereafter, one of us will come to you for disburesement and sharing according to the agreement we will reach on. As stipulated above, I would appreciate your urgent response with indication of your interest and ability to cooperate with us for the execution of this mutual business. All we need from you is your transparency and assurance that you will not betray the trust I am imposing on you. You should realize that my colleagues appointed me for this due to the trust they had on me. Like wise I am contacting you with trust that you will not let me down. Therefore, I urge you to please! do not hesitate to get back to me with the remittance instructions as follows:
(i) NAME IN FULL(ii) NATIONALITY
(iii) COMPANY NAME(iii) SECURED TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS.(iv) THE REMITTANCE INSTRUCTIONS (YOUR NOMINATED BANK DETAILS).
As soon as I acknowledged these informations from you, we will move forward to facilitate the necessary paper work that will determine the successful transfer of the money to your overseas bank account. We will also discuss the percentage ratio upon receipt of your return email.

You must however note that this transaction is more than 100% risk free on your side hence we have set in place all the modalities for the successful transfer of the money as soon as we received the remittance instruction from you. But you must ensure to keep the transaction absolutely confidential due the nature by which the money was acquired.
Cordially,Engr. Daniel Maloi.Secured voice Telephone line: +27-73-797-5864
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