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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: "Mr. Roy Tshabalala" <chennaioffice@alufit.com>
Reply-To: <mr.roytshabalala@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 19:04:11 +0200
Subject: I will appreciate your timely response

Dear Sir/Madam

Thanks for your email. First I must solicit your confidence in this
transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as it is utterly top
secret. I know it may come to you as a surprise, but I sincerely
apologize if it invades on your privacy. My name is Mr. Roy Tshabalala,
Chief Data Analyst of Nedbank of South Africa, Westville Branch, Kwazulu
Natal. I am a South African.

I am writing to solicit for your assistance in the transfer of
USD$10,200,000.00 (Ten Million Two Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars). This
amount is part of the funds stashed into South Africa by the late Libyan
President (Muammar Gaddafi) before his sudden death in 2011. As the
Chief Data custodian of the bank, I cloned the amount placed it in a
suspense account without a beneficiary. By so doing, I deleted the data
of the original beneficiary and saved it as unclaimed funds without a
beneficiary. I need to move the fund as an investment funds out from
our bank. Here I need your assistant.

As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this fund
thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this fund
into your bank account. I intend to part 30% of this fund to you. I do
need to stress that there is practically no risk involved, hence it is
going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand as
the original depositor of this fund.

I will appreciate your timely response and I will initiate this
process towards an immediate conclusion.

Regards,
Mr. Roy Tshabalala

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