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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "From: Paul I. Made" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <paulmadeza61@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 03:34:59 +0200
Subject: GOOD DAY



From: Paul I. Made
Human Rights Commission
29 Princess of Wales Terrace,
Cnr York and St Andrews Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
Private Bag 2700, Houghton, Johannesburg 2041
Email: paulmadeza61@outlook.com

We Humbly Need Your Assistance

Good Day Sir,

I hope you would not be embarrassed to read such a traumatizing mail from someone you do not know and have not met before.

My name is Paul Made, the only son of Mr. Jerold Made from Zimbabwe currently residing in South Africa as asylum Seekers. I

am contacting you on behalf of my father, who is currently paralyzed and my mother Mrs. Anna Made and two sisters Maria and

Jane, we seek your assistance for a new life and the investment of US$ 15, 200, 000, 00 (Fifteen Million, two hundred

thousand United States Dollars).

The story of Zimbabwe, as I believe is no more news but probably has made headlines on almost all countries national

newspapers. But you can read more from the URL below, generated from the Human Right Watch.

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/zimbabwe/ZimLand0302-03.htm

Our farm was invaded on the 23rd of January 2003 by the war veterans of the ZANU-PF being the electoral party of the

current president Robert Mugabe. At first there was an understanding that we should share the land in equal with them,

which my father peacefully agreed and shared the land to maintain peace and to remain in his tobacco business, but the

story changed after the last election of March 29 2008, which the whole supporters of the opposition party of MDC (Movement

for democratic change) believed that the ZANU-PF has lost the election and also many country believed the same and the

delay in the release of the presidential result.

This caused more problems on the MDC supporters which my family as one of the families that supports the MDC was asked to

evacuate our family business and everything that we own to the ZANU-PF war veterans and many other families where affected.

Let me not go further in touching my wounds. This news shocked my father causing him a brain stroke and half of his body is

being paralyzed till date. We left to South Africa and upon our arrival my mother made a deposit of the above mentioned

amount into one of the Private Banks. but to our greatest surprise we were expecting the President of South Africa where

most Zimbabweans has ran to secure their lives, to intervene on the case, since he is the Mediator and to the world’s

greatest surprise he made it clear on a National Conference that there was no crisis in Zimbabwe. This has posed a lot of

questions to our security in this neighboring country.

Coupled with the recent xenophobic attack on foreigners in South Africa, we have come to a conclusion that is not a safe

place for us to be, as many foreign investors are pulling out there Investment from this country, and we cannot continue

with any form of investment. The above funds was moved from Zimbabwe through the Eagle Security Services and with documents

of clean background it was accepted and deposited as investment fund under my name(PAUL MADE) as the beneficiary. As it

stands we cannot move this fund out of this country via security services anymore as it has being deposited into an account

already and our status as refugees has limitations to certain financial obligations and operations.

Please my family would really appreciate it if you could help us; we only need your help to stand as our Overseas Family

Business Partner and the fund would be transferred to you on Investment Ground and I would fly my family out of this

country to meet with you and start up a new life and a proper medical attention for my father.

This is a clean fund from our family business. All we need is a new life somewhere that is secure
I would give you more details on how this could be achievable as soon as I get your favorable response via Email or

telephone number.

I would appreciate if you respond to me via my personal email.


Yours Faithfully

Mr. Paul Made (Son)
For the Family

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