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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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Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Jacoline Hondo <mrsjacolinehondo@faithserve.com>
Reply-To: mrsjacoline.hondo@live.fr
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:12:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Dear Friend



Dear Friend
 
My Alternative Email Address: (mrsjacoline.hondo@live.fr)
 
May the blessing of God be upon you and grant you sympathy and wisdom to understand my condition and how much l need your help .l know this might be a surprise to you why l choose to contact you, but when I was desperately looking for a trust-worthy person to assist my son who is currently residing in Cote D'ivore, l was convinced that you are a trust-worthy person who will be of great help to the current condition of mine and my son and so I decided to contact you for the permision to go ahead.
 
My name is Mrs Jacoline Hondo, am 58 years old wife of Mr Alex Hondo from Zimbabwe. i am suffering from a long time cancer of the breast which also affected my brain,from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that, according to my doctors they have advised me that i may not live for the next three months,this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a  very bad stage.
 
 
During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporters of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all the white farmers to surrender their farms to his party members.
 
My husband was one of the best farmers in our country and because he did not support Mugabe’s ideas, Mugabe’s supports invaded my husband farm and burnt everything in the farm, killing my husband and made away with a lot of items in my husband farm.Please, to prove my honesty, you can read some of President Mugabe's brutal act about the white farm land on this head line:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6728015.stm
 
Before his death, my husband had deposited with one of the prominent bank in Abidjan , Cote D'ivore the sum of (US$7.8 Million) Seven Million, Eight Hundred Thousand  United States Dollars. After the death of my husband, my son {Wellington  Hondo} decided to move out of my country to a refegue camp in Abidjan where my late husband had deposited the money with the Bank in a suspence account.
 
Just like l said before, recently my Doctor told me that l will not last for the next three months due to my cancer illness. Having known my condition that l will not last for the next three months, l want you to help my only son to transfer this money to your bank account and to assist him with letter of invitation to come over to your country for onward investments plans in your base. 
 
Please why I am contacting you is to assist my son who is currently in refegue camp to move this money out of Cote D'ivore because as refegue, he is not allowed to operate any Bank Account or assured of security our investment within in the country.
 
l  have instructed my son to offer you 30% of the total sum for your assistance, and 5% will be maped out for any expenses that might be involved in the process of transferring the money to your bank account.  while 65% will be for him, which I believe that with your help my son to invest it in your country.
 
All I want you to do is to furnish me with your private telephone number, Full name and fax numbers so that l will forwad it to my son in Cote D'ivore for easy communication.Or you can as well contact my son directly on his phone number in Abidjan (+225) 4511 6073 or you email him at his email address (wellington_hondo@hotmail.fr)
 
 
Best Regards.
 
MRS. JACOLINE HONDO.

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