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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 Vincent Shababala <sales@kcfm.my>
Reply-To: vin_shababala01@live.com
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:35:18 -0600
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE



Good Day,

I am the Assistant Operating Officer for individual life insurance
benefits of Hollard Insurance Group, Johannesburg, South Africa. With
the consent of our head of department, I am contacting you privately
regarding this urgent matter.

During the cause of our duties, we discovered an unclaimed life
insurance benefit of a Masterpiece Policyholder of US$25.5 MILLION
(TWENTY FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS), which
was established by one of our long time foreign clients, Mr. Ferdi, who
died in an accident in 2012. His next of kin, his son was also killed.

The rules governing the conduct of South African insurance companies, is
covered by the Financial Service Authority (FSA), does not allow any
unclaimed insurance benefits for more than seven years. After this
period the company must discontinue the policy and terminate the insured
ownership benefits.

In view of the aforementioned, we ask your permission to present you as
the legal and eligible beneficiary of his benefits and for that reason
will make it easier to process the claim.

We have all necessary information and legal documents needed to back you
up for this claim. All we require from you is your honest co-operation
to enable us complete this project. We guarantee that this will be
executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law.

On receipt of your reply in acceptance, along with your private email
address and phone number for easy communication, we shall then discuss
the sharing ratio and how to proceed. Kindly treat this matter with
utmost confidentiality and urgency.

I am looking forward to your reply by this private email address
vin_shababala01@live.com.

Thank you.

Yours Sincerely

Mr Vincent Shababala

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