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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: Elisa Balma <kofoeddy2@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: ja2chy@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:12:41 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Treat as urgent please!

Hello Dear,

It's my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

My name is Eliezabeth Balma, from Zimbabwe . I escaped from our country at the heat of the political crisis in my country after losing my father and mother in the political war; as a result of the political instability going on in my country right now.
My Late Father Dr. George Balma Zongah, was a great politician in Zimbabwe political arena.

Because of my father's sincerity, He was killed on the 04th of April 2008 by unknown soldiers in our residential house. See news for more information about my late father's death.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm

When this accident occurred at about "11:15 am on the 04th April 2008, my father did not died on the spot rather he was rushed to Harare Hospital by unknown soldiers and he managed to me through his assistance, and only managed to sneak a written message to me, explaining his condition and also
informed me that he has the sum of Eighteen Million, Seven Hundred thousand United State
Dollars. (USD$18,700,000.00) left in fixed deposit account in one of the leading banks in Africa.

He further told me that he deposited the money in my name, and also gave me all the necessary but legal documents to this fund with the bank.

He instructed me to leave Harare immediately for my safety, I relocated to Abidjan the capital city of Cote d'Ivoire for my safety and in respect of fund, Now I have decided to invest this money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons and I want
you to help me to transfer this fund to your country for investment and I will come and reside permanently in your country and continue my education.


I promise to give you 15% of this fund for your assistance, If you are willing to help me and try as much as possible to reach me through this email to enable us proceed in earnest towards concluding of this project, but please if you know that you cannot help me do not worry, Just respond to me
with your intention so that I will know what to do and do not disclose it to anybody here because I do not know who is who.

Thank you and God bless you.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Balma.





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