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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: Themba Moyani <richardattorneys@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: thembamoyani14@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 01:03:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: STANDARD CHARTERED GROUP













Corporate Head Office
3rd Floor. N0. 2 Merchant Place , 1 Fredman Drive ,
Sandton 2196. Gauteng , South Africa
Registration Number: ZC 18
Email thembamoyani14@hotmail.com
Tel.:  +27 78 289 3555

Greetings,

I wish to approach you with a request that would be of immense benefit to both
of us. 
My name is Themba Moyani, I am the Head Accounts Management Section of a
well-known Bank here in South Africa Standard Chartered Bank.(SCB) I want you
and I to make some fortune out of a situation that I am obviously left with no
other better option.

One of our accounts with holding balance of US$6, 200,000.00 (Six Million, Two
Hundred Thousand United States Dollar) has been dormant and last operated in the
past Three (3) years. From investigations and confirmations, the owner of this
account is a Hong Kong Foreigner by name Engineer Wing Chiu Lee died on the 4th
of January 2006 in an automobile accident along Pretoria N1 High-Way. Since then
nobody has done anything as regards to the claiming of this money as he has no
family member that is aware of the existence of either the account or the fund.

Several attempt to trace any of his relative proof abortive and also
Information from the National Immigration office states that late Engineer Wing
Chiu Lee was single on point of entry into South Africa .

Our Financial Institution is presently and by law the custodian of the money
belonging to The deceased, whose account I am responsible for monitoring and
officiating.

The present Mandate I have to present a credible beneficiary opens the way for
us to take advantage of The situation and use the money to positively affect the
lives of many instead of allowing The funds to be completely lost, since no one
knows about the money and no one will Come forward to claim the money as we
already know.

I have confidentially discussed this issue with some of the bank officials and
we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with. We thus propose
to do business with you standing in as the next of kin of this fund from the
deceased and fund released to you after due processes have been followed.

The sharing ratio shall be 70% for me and 30% for you. This shall also be
applicable to all Expenditures that would be incurred in the course of the
transaction because I wouldn't Want either of us to feel cheated.

Please note that this is a legal and risk free transaction that does not in
anyway hamper The monetary laws of your country. It is an inheritance fund.

I will appreciate your urgent response in this regard.

Thanks
Sincerely,

Mr Themba Moyani
 
 

 
 



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