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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: "Barr. James Dabengwa" <austinefrank01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hknbddhb@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 23:39:42 +0100
Subject: Re: Read It Rrom Here

Dear Friend,

How are you today? I know that this mail may come to you almost a
surprise as we never met before, but before you proceed on the reading
of this mail, I want you to settle your mind and read with good
understanding of the situation, it is true and not a joke. I saw your
contact email address from the South African Chambers of Commerce and
decided to contact you after much prayers and consideration since I
cannot be able to meet with you face to face for now. At first, I
strongly believed that any information received from the Chambers of
Commerce Office is correct and must be relied on.

However, I am Barr. James Dabengwa, personal attorney to the late
Engr. Ronald Campbell, a national of Northern America, who used to
work with Shell Company here in the Republic of South Africa, on the
11th of June, 2005, My client, his wife and their only child were
involved in a car accident along Cape Town express road, unfortunately
they all lost their lives in the event of the accident and since then,
I have made several inquiries to several Embassies to locate any of my
clients extended relatives, this has proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his
relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but to
no avail, hence I contacted you, I contacted you to assist in
repatriating the money and property left behind by my client, I can
easily convince the bank with my legal practice that you are the only
surviving relation of my client, otherwise the Estate he left behind
will be confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this
huge deposits were lodged in accordance with the Government’s Law as
provided in section 129 sub 63(N) of South African Banking Edit of
1961 which says that at the expiration of eight years the fund will be
reverted to the ownership of South African Government, if nobody
applies to claim the fund.

Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at
about US$17,431,000.00 (Seventeen million Four Hundred and Thirty One
Thousand U.S. American dollars) consequently issued me a notice to
provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the
next ten bank working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of his relative, I seek
your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased, so
that the proceeds of this account valued at US$17,431,000.00 U.S
dollars can be paid to your account and then you and I can share the
money 50% to me and 50% to you.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal
through and also forward the following to me so that I can file an
application of claim in your name to the bank immediately;

1, Your Full Name:

2, House Address:

3, Your Country:

4, Your Contact Telephone Number:

5, Your Age and Gender:

6, Your Occupation:

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law.

More importantly, you are strictly advised to send your reply to my
Private and Personal email address bellow for security and
confidential reason (barr.njdmdcggroup@yahoo.com).

Yours Faithfully,

Barr. Sibong Ndebele.

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