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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: Janeth Williams <janthwilliams15@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:58:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: FROM: MRS.JANETH.F.WIILLIAMS


FROM: MRS.JANETH.F.WIILLIAMS.
18 SUNHEIGHT RANBURG EAST
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA .
My Son Email: mrjosephw@yahoo.com.hk 
My Son Mobile : +27 82 717 2473
FAX: +27-11-507-5206
 
 
URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED
Good Day
 
This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial as a matter of urgent am desperately looking for a foreign partner whom I can trust to handle some investment or fund movement.
 
I am Mrs.Janeth.F.Wiilliams, wife of late Mr. Felix G. Williams, who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people. I am writing from South Africa . I got your address from the Internet through the consultancy directory during my search for a reliable and honest person to transact this business with.
 
I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party-president Robert Mugabe. Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe , the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to dispossess the land being occupied by white farmers. This action has led to the killing of some members of opposition party including my husband (Felix G.Williams).
 
But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he deposited the sum of US$25.5Million (Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in the name of our only son Joseph E.Williams Jr, with the help of reputable Security and Finance Company in south Africa with the intention of using it to open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our neighboring country (Swaziland) after his university education.
 
On the 29th of June 2006, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him (my husband) to death. Since then, they have been terrorizing my only son, Joseph E. Williams Jr, but we managed to escape to a neighboring country, South Africa as a political asylum seeker (refugee). But our position in South Africa does not permit us to open an account or run any huge financial business.
 
That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your private account so that you will assist him to invest it in your country. Hence, if you agree to assist us, we will offer you 25% of the money for your assistance, 5% will be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 70% will be for our family investment in your country under your close supervision. I need your urgent and confidential response.
 
Kindly contact my son Joseph E. Williams Jr, on this Tel +27 82 717 2473 and email address: mrjosephw@yahoo.com.hk
 
Best regards,
 
Mrs. Janeth Williams.
{On behalf of the family} 
 


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