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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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Fraud email example:

From: Shona Morgan Tsvangirai <marcafo104@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 13:20:36 +0000
Subject: Please your kindest assistance required.


Dear Friend,I send my greetings to you.This letter is not intended to cause you any embarrassment in whatever form,rather am compelled to contact you following knowledge of your high repute and trustworthiness.Borne out of the difficult situation that our family has been engulfed out hence my contacting you via Ref:FAMILY ASSISTANCE/INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP.Its sad to inform that my father and bread winner of the family was forced to relinquish his position after a peace agreement he signed with the President Robert Mugabe.May I introduce myself properly,my name is Shona Tsvangirai,the son of late Mr.Morgan Tsvangirai of Kwekwe Zimbabwe.My father was one the political oppositions to President Robert Mugabe.And during the war crisis against the white farmers in Zimbabwe,my father strongly opposed to his government policy and never supported him because on his envy and greediness to claim all the white-owned farms for himself,party members and his satanic followers. He ordered all white farmers to surrender all their farms and lands to his party members and followers.My father (Mr.Morgan Tsvangirai of a blessed memory) was also one of the best farmers in the country despite his political ambition,and because he did not Support Robert Mugabe ideas, Mugabe’s ordered his supporters to invaded my father's farm and burnt down everything in the farm in as much as killing my beloved father with two of his workers who was at the farm with him and made away with a lot of items (on the 19th Jan.2001,Friday around 3.30 pm).Before his death,my father deposited with a Security Company in Ghana,West Africa the sum of $35,500,000.00 (Thirty five million,five hundred thousand United States Dollars) as family valuables.This money is meant for cultivating our newly acquired 285 acres of farm land in Shiselweni Village near Umbuluzi river in Swaziland which my father bought through the help of the Swaziland Monarch King Suboza Mswati(lll).A portion of the fund also mapped out for purchasing of farm tractors for the new site.My father as at then,had concluded negotiations and/or business enquires from NEW LONDON TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT.ROUTE 460 WEST OF LYNCH BURG LONDON.After the death of my father,i then decided to move to Ghana,West Africa (as all my hope is now where my father deposited the Money with the Security Company as family valuables to withdraw it and put it to use. But my hope was turned down as i was made to understand that it is against the constitutional human right law of Ghana that asylums seeking refugee in their country owe or operate account with their banks or to have an enterprise in their country. This they showed me in Green Paper on International Refugee(SECTION 22 ACT OF THE REFUGEE ACT NO.13 OF 1998) prohibits it and failure to comply is against SECTION 37(B1 and B9) of the Ghana Refugee laws as contained in the Agreement signed with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)in 1993.After all this i decided to seek for advice on the best way to retrieve this money without breaking the U.N.H.C.R rules,and i was advised to contact any trustworthy oversea person to help me because of the afore-mentioned reasons and/or law against asylum seekers here.Based on this premise,the human right law of Ghana does not permit me to move this money overseas on my own capacity. So l decided to contact you to assist me to move this money out of Ghana because once again,as asylum seekers i am not allowed to operate any bank account within Ghana.This money i have intend to use for investment in your country. As i have two options for you, (A) firstly you can choose to have certain percentage of the money for nominating your account for this transaction.(B)Or you can go into partnership with me for the proper profitable investment of the money in your country. Whichever the option you want, feel free to notify me. I have also mapped out 5% of this money for all kinds of expenses we might inure in the process of this transaction. But if you do not prefer a partnership with me ,for your rewarding kindness i give you 30% of the total money while the remaining 70% will remain for my investment and you will still help me in investing this money in your country as you can understand that i do not have any knowledge of international business. Would you be of kind enough to assist me.I am looking for your reply soonest.Thanks and best regardsShona Tsvangirai(behalf of Tsvangirai family)

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