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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: "Mrs. Zarifa Louis" <mrszarifalouis@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:34:14 -0500
Subject: RE: PARTNERSHIP =?UTF-8?Q?PROPOSAL=E2=80=8F?=



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Good day,

My Name is Mrs. Zarifa Louis, I know this will be a surprise to
you.Please consider this message as a request from a family in dares
need of your help.

I am the Wife of Late Mr. Pieter Louis, from Sudan Darfur, My husband
Mr.Pieter Louis, was the owner of Omar Sea Food Industry in Darfur
region and a Farm Land in Darfur region and supplier of Central African
Countries with sea food till the Government find out that Darfur region
was rich on Oil and Mineral Resources which was discovered by an
individual Group called Organization Rebel Movement.

The Government and Rebel Movement are fighting over who will inherit
the Darfur region because of the Oil discovered and Rebel Movement are
killing all the people in Darfur region to enable them inherit the land,
and my Late husband was murdered in cold blood and our Farm, Sea Food
Industry was burnt down. Before then, my Late husband had moved (
US$25.5M) Twenty-Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars to South Africa for establishment of another branch in South
Africa,the fund was deposited in a private Security & Finance Company in
the name of my son Mr. Aidan Louis as the beneficiary.

My husband was killed because of the Oil discovered in our Farm Land
since the murderer's, Rebel Movement believed once my husband is killed
they will have no challenge in taking over the land. Now the Rebel
Movement turned against us looking for the remaining existing family of
Louis in order to achieve their aim and objective.

We decided to leave Darfur to Johannesburg, South Africa to seek Asylum
(Refugees). Now all the documents issued when the consignment was
deposited has been handed over to our family Lawyer in South Africa who
assisted my late husband when the consignment was safely deposited.

The financial laws in South Africa on Refugees do not warrant us to
invest the funds here as we cannot operate any bank account, which is
why we decided to look for a Foreign Partner who will assist us in
moving the funds out of South Africa for my family investment. We have
decided to offer you 25% of the total amount, 5% mapped out to defray
all expenses that will be incurred during the process of concluding the
transaction, while the remaining 70% will be for my family and will be
invested in your country under your management. Immediately you receive
this E-mail, kindly contact us, i am here with my son, Mr.Aidan Louis,
on the below stated email for proceedings due to my poor English and old
age. My son has been mandated to over-see the transaction with the
support of my family Lawyer.

Looking forward to hearing from you soonest.via my private email:
mrszarifalouis@outlook.com

Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Zarifa Louis,
For The Family

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