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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: dea letter <dealetter200@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:25:47 +0200
Subject: URGENT FAMILY ASSISTANCE


*From: Mrs. Kate Khumalo 18 Sunheight Rd., Ranburg East Johannesburg
South Africa. My Son email: (davidkhumalo600@mixmail.com
<davidkhumalo600@mixmail.com>) Mobile: +27 83 246 1048*
*Date 27/ 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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