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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 Kate Khumalo <letterleter12@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:58:25 +0200
Subject: URGENT FAMILY ASSISTANCE




From: Mrs. Kate Khumalo

18 Sunheight Rd., Ranburg East

Johannesburg South Africa.

My Son email: (davidkhumalo600@mixmail.com)

Mobile: +27 83 246 1048

Date 24/ 9/2014



Attn: Sir/Madam,



URGENT
FAMILY ASSISTANCE



This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial, as a matter of
urgent, am desperately looking for a foreign partner whom I can trust to handle
some investment or fund movement.



I am Mrs. Kate Khumalo, wife of late Mr. Johnson Khumalo, who was murdered
by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people. I am writing from South
Africa. I got your address from the Internet through the consultancy directory
during my search for a reliable and honest person to transact this business
with.



I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a
tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party,
President Robert Mugabe. Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the
government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to
dispossess the land being occupied by white farmers. This action has led to the
killing of some members of opposition party including my husband
(Mr. Johnson Khumalo) but before the death of my husband, he anticipated some
dangers and so he deposited the sum of US$8.5m (Eight million Five hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) as a consignment in the name of our only son, Mr.
David Khumalo, with the help of reputable security company in south Africa with
the intention of using it to open a fertilizer manufacturing company and for
the purchase of new machinery’s for the establishment of new farm in
Lesotho and Swaziland after his university education.



On the 29th of October 2009, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF)
ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him (my husband) to death.
Since then, they have been terrorizing my only son, Mr. David Khumalo, but we
managed to escape to a neighboring country, South Africa as a political asylum
seeker (refugee). But our position in South Africa does not permit us to open
an account or run any huge financial business, that is why I want this fund to
be transferred into your private account so that you will assist us to
invest it in your country. Hence you agreed to assist us, we will offer you 25%
of the money for your assistance, 5% will be for the possible expenses incurred
in the process of this transaction, while 70% will be for our family investment
in your country under your close supervision. I need your urgent and
confidential response through my son. +27 83 246 1048





Best regards

Mrs. Kate Khumalo Note:
Please do not reply to sender email.

(For The Family).



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