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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.henrietta" <henrietta.p.ipeleng@qq.com>
Reply-To: henrietta.p.ipeleng@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 02:24:16 -0600 (CST)
Subject: YOUR PRESENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA WILL BE HIGHLY WELCOME AND
APPRECIATED.

Dear Partner,
Firstly, let me start by introducing myself as MRS. HENDRIETTA IPELENG
BOGOPANE-ZULU, I am hearing impaired, Widow, a mother of three children
and the Deputy Minister of Public Works from 11th May 2009 under the
auspices of the new President of South Africa Mr. JACOB ZUMA. I got your
contact curtsey our foreign information exchange in Pretoria on a personal
request in search of a reliable and trustworthy foreign individual, though
we have not met before. After due deliberation with my children, I decided
to contact you for your assistance to stand as a beneficiary to the sum of
US$30.5M (Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
Kindly view my profile on the Government website
http://www.info.gov.za/aboutgovt/contacts/depmin/publicworks.htm
In 1999, I became the Chairperson of Parliamentary Joint Monitoring
Committee, a lot of government contracts were awarded to my late husband
with my influence, this actually paved way to our success, my late
husband died while he was on an official trip to Trinidad and Tobago in
2004.
After his death, I discovered that he had some funds in a United State
Dollar account which amounted to the sum of US$30.5M with a security and
finance institution here in South Africa, of which I will divulge
information to you when I get your full consent and support to go for a
change of beneficiary and subsequent transfer of the funds into your
comfortable and conducive bank account of your choice. This fund emanated
as a result of an over-invoiced contract which he executed with the
Government of South Africa. Though I assisted him in getting these
contracts, I never knew it was being over-invoiced by him. I am afraid
that the government of South Africa has secretly passed a bill to start
investigating several Government contracts awarded from 1994 to date. If
they discover this money in his bank account, they will confiscate it and
seize his assets here in South Africa and this will definitely and
simultaneously affect my political career and possible detention of me and
my entire family.
I want your assistance in opening a personal account in my bank, with the
help of my financial advise (a banker), so that this fund can be wired
into your account directly without any hitch. As soon as the fund gets to
your account here, you will immediately move it into another personal bank
account of yours, in your country.
I will see to it that the account is not traced from South Africa. As soon
as you have confirmed the fund into your account, I will send my eldest
son and my Attorney to your country, to meet you and discuss best business
investments. For your assistance, I will offer you 20% of the principal
sum which amounts to US$6,100,000.00 (Six million One Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars Only). However, you have to assure me of your
sincerity and readiness to go into mutual agreement with me.
N: B PLEASE, DO NOT CALL MY OFFICE LINE OR RESPOND VIA MY OFFICE E-MAIL,
BECAUSE OF THE SENSITIVITY OF THIS TRANSACTION, EXCEPT VIA MY DIRECT
MOBILE / E-MAIL ADDRESS STATED ABOVE IN THIS LETTER, FOR SECURITY REASONS.
YOUR PRESENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA WILL BE HIGHLY WELCOME AND APPRECIATED.

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation and my regards to your family.
Yours Sincerely
contact email(mrs.ipeleng.i.henrietta@gmail.com)
Mrs. Henrietta I .B. Zulu




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