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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: Stanley Vusi <stanprivatembox2009@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <stan_private_mbox@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:06:06 +0000
Subject: Hello "compliment of the season"





My Dear, Due
to my careful search for an honest,reliable,sincere and willing
partner,I am contacting you with faith and I ask if you can be trusted
not to break an agreement,still it took me time to make up my mind
contacting you and to offer you this proposal of mine of which I can't
afford to loose,my whole life and family hope depends on it.Please
after reading my mail and you find it worthy for you to assist
me,contact me through my alternative email id
(stan_private_mbox@hotmail.com)with utmost confidential and considering
the proposal. My name is Stanley Vusi, the son
of Late Mr.Johnson Vusi of blessed memory from Zimbabwe, During the
current crises against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporters of
President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party
members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrender
all farms to his party members and his followers. My father is One of
the most successful multi farmers in our country and because he did not
support Mugabe`s ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded my fathers farm and
burnt everything in the farm, killing him and made away with a lot of
items in my fathers farm.I and my mother escaping,we moved to
Chitungwiza a place near Harare and recently again Zimbabwean
government declared moves against non-citizens in which the police took
us down to the Caledonia farms and forced many of us to move to an
ancestral village before the catholics mission could come to rescue.for
the truth of it all check the caption of BBC with this page below: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4177222.stm Before
his death, my father had deposited with FINANCE HOUSE IN SOUTH AFRICA,
the sum of (USD $16.5 MILLION) through the diplomatic services as a
family valuable in trunk box. After these incidents, the mission helped
us amongst others to move to Johannesburg South Africa where we
re-located under political asylum as a refugees to seek for foreign
partner overseas that will assist us move this money out of THE PLACE
OF DEPOSIT to your country as I and my mother have made up our mind to
invest and live in your country. As an asylum seeker we are not allowed
to operate any Financial Transaction like this within SA. We
have agreed to offer you 30% of the total sum for your assistance as
soon as the money get`s into the account you will provide while 5% will
be mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of
this transaction both local and international. I want truth and honest
to be our watch word in this transaction and please treat this
transaction with strictly confidential for the successful out come of
it.PLEASE inform me on the best,faster and safer way of contacting and
communicating with you privately.
Thanks as I awaits to hear from you. Sincerely Yours, Stanley Vusi.

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