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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: "Head Office" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <citizensfinancecorp01@gala.net>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 16:46:06 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION


>From Dr. David Njama Radebe
Director (Payment Approval)
Office of the Treasure - Department Of Finance
Pretoria HeadQuarters,
Republic of South Africa
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The Treasury office of the Department of Finance here in the Republic of South Africa , has investigated your fund, which has been on transfer process for some period of time.
During the second quarter of the general Financial Auditing in the South African Reserve Bank, the office of the auditing and fund recovery unit, has recovered your fund at the tune of GBP£1,000,000.00, which was to be paid to you through bank-to-bank transfer to your bank account.
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After the auditing, the SARB decides that all recovered and returned fund should be paid to their various beneficiaries within 21 days starting from today. This decision was taking by the Board of the auditors and the External Affairs in the Department of Finance (Office of the Treasury), and at present your fund is in the escrow account of the South African Reserve Bank.

It has been understood by our investigation team, that this fund was acquired by you as a result of the initial inheritance of fund, which an agent in South Africa was supposed to remit the fund into your bank account in your country some time ago, although you have not received the fund due to the fact that the South African Revenue Service Department and some other finance entities requested for some payment, including the Inland Revenue Tax.

The Department of Finance has signed the released of your fund, and it has also decided that your fund should be paid out to you without any further delay.
For your full identification and completion of your payment, you are hereby advised to send to our agent (Citizens Finance Corp of South Africa), your full information as stated below:
NAME:
AGE:
ADDRESS:
OCCUPATION:
PHONE NUMBER:
FAX NUMBER:
EMAIL:
Your Nationality/Country:
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Note that the Department of Finance has ordered and assigned our accredited agent (Citizens Finance Corp of South Africa) to carry out your payment, therefore you should urgently contact them on the following details;
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CONTACT PERSON: Prof. SAMUEL NGOBENI
COMPANY: CITIZENS FINANCE CORP OF SOUTH AFRICA
POSITION: PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTOR
PHONE: +27 780 899 250

EMAIL:citizensfinancecorp01@gala.net

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PAYOUT AMOUNT: GBP£1,000,000.00
IN WORDS: ONE MILLION BRITISH POUNDS STERLING
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Please contact the above person on phone urgently +27 780 899 250 and request them to give you more information on the means which you will receive your fund.
As soon as our agent (Citizens Finance Corp of South Africa) has confirmed to us that you have contacted them, the Department of Finance will proceed to hand over your fund to (Citizens Finance Corp of South Africa) andrequest them to commence your payment with immediate effect.
Waiting for your reply for further proceedings.
Regards,
Dr. David Njama Radebe
Department of Treasury
Ministry of Finance
Republic of South Africa

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