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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: "Veronia Wild" <veronia.wild@tlen.pl>
Reply-To: "Veronia Wild" <lucianaford@tlen.pl>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:50:29 -0700
Subject: Business Letter to bixnfleisch


MRS. VERONIA WILD
PPC CONSULTING
NETHERLANDS
Sir,
Please do kindly permit me to present to you a risk free, short-term business offer that will overwhelmingly improve your financial status considering that lately everyone is undergoing the adverse effects of global economic meltdown.
The situation in Zimbabwe between the year 2000 and 2007, resulting in the death of more than 500 white farmers (documented and undocumented) and the exodus of more than 1,000,000 Whites from Zimbabwe to neighboring countries created a global uproar. This was when Robert Mugabe developed politico-military insanity and hate, unleashing massacre on white farmers in a move to reclaim land assets for his native Africans without a proper plan for the use of the land assets: Please visit the YOUTUBE VIDEO below to gain more insight on the subject matter after which you proceed to read the business letter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WqSpHA1uUM
Without prejudice considering the volume of false, abusive and surreal business letters circulating the internet in recent times, I ask that you kindly give keen attention to this genuine business offer that I am presenting to you. Without wasting much of your time, my name is Veronica Wild of PP Consulting, (Netherlands Branch), representing and writing on behalf of Mrs. Luciana Ford, wife of the murdered Terry Ford who happened to be a white farmer in Zimbabwe before the unprecedented mad crackdown and seizure of White owned farms by the Robert Mugabe led Militocratic Junta in the year 2002. The Late Terry Ford was specifically a victim of a Mugabe led government instigated assassination during the massacre (pogrom). He died such a painful death that even his pet witnessed it and could not let go of his master’s corpse. Visit the link below and afterwards proceed with the business letter:
http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/03/19/zimbabwe.dog/
Mr. Luciana Ford requests urgent assistance to remove and relocate their family fortune US$20,000,000 .00 to your country for onward investment purposes. This is a genuine and risk-free business concern backed up with facts and proof of funds existence. They are willing to compensate you with 20% of the total funds for every of your assistance while 5% of the total funds shall be mapped out for internal and external expenses that will occur in the course of the transaction. The funds in question is currently held in a Brokerage account and it was generated from the sales of all the entire family assets including a Red diamond rich land in Marange region of Zimbabwe sold to a mining conglomerate and this fund was
For more information about the Late Terry Ford please, kindly visit the links below http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1878846.stm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-105477/White-farmer-killed-Zimbabwe.html
Also attached are further pictures about the murder of the late Terry Ford.
Please contact Mrs. Luciana Ford directly at the email address: lucianaford@prokonto.pl for more information about the funds transfer ensuring that you provide her with your mobile number for effective communication.
Thanks,
Veronia Wild (PPC CONSULTING – NETHERLANDS BRANCH)


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