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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: David Zwani <davzwani2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: David Zwani <davzwani@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 07:08:47 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL PLEASE I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE


 Mr.David Zwani
28 Hillgate Place Capetown
South Africa

 

Good day,


 
I am David Zwani, afinancial consultant attached to fidelity investments international, a fundmanagement company with over US$2,000,000,000.00 (Two Billion United StatesDollars) capital investment fund. I handle all our investor's direct capitalfunds and extracts 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annumon each of the Investor's Marginal Capital Fund.

 

As an expert in thisprofession, I have funds amounting to US$25,000,000.00 (Twenty-Five MillionUnited States Dollars) from the Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someoneto trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the fund as Annual InvestmentProceeds from Fidelity Marginal Capital Fund for our own partnershipbusiness  investment in his/her country.

 

All confirmable documentsto support this Investment Fund will be made available to you. Meanwhile, Ihave worked out the modalities and technicalities so that the funds can beclaimed in any of our six clearing houses without any hitches. All I require isyour honest co-operation. I guarantee that this will be executed under alegitimate arrangement and no government involvement at all.

 

It is very important youinclude your contact address, telephone and fax number for easy communication.

 

Hope to hear from you soon.

Email your response to tome private email address: davzwan@gmail.com  

Mobile:+27 7833 17554

Yours faithfully.

David Zwani



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