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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: Jacob Zuma JR <info@southafrican.gov.org>
Reply-To: jacob.zumajr@onet.eu
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 01:32:30 -0700
Subject: From: South African President Son, Jacob Zuma JR.



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From: Jacob Zuma JR
South African Royal Palace
Contact email: jacob.zumajr@onet.eu

For Your Urgent Attention:
Managing Director / CEO

Sir/Ma,

With profound respect, I crave your indulgence hoping you will have a
nice time to go through my letter and urgently get back to me.

Before I proceed, I will not fail to ask about the modification of your
health which is momentous in human dignity. Permit me to introduce
myself; I am Jacob Zuma JR, of which my father named me Jacob JR after
his name been the son of South African President Jacob Zuma whom was
recently shot dead in Nairobi Kenya.

In highlight of the above, I am writing to request for your sincere and
compassionate assistance urgently to move some amount of fund
US$26Million overseas owe by my father in the bank which he deposited
for his future sequestration from civil services before his death
occurrence.

In fact, my father has been under going through political predicaments
and suppressions from the opposition parties who finally got him dead
“At about 11 a.m. ET on Friday (May 06, 2016).

Please, I seek for your honest and sincere support to move and secure
some of my father’s asset aboard before the new government would take
over his government sit which they will likely come against my father’s
properties which was the reason of his killing by the opposition
leaders.

Precisely, I have already moved the sum of BP£14Million Pounds to the
neighboring country Nigeria with the help of my father’s reliable
friend, Senator Atiku Abubakar whom I ran to their state in Nigeria for
protection.

For your information, the killing idea of my father is in public domain,
CNN and the rest of other media. Therefore, I need your cordial
assistance to lodge in some funds in a foreign account as my father’s
asset is not secured in any bank account here in Africa.

So I need your urgent assistance to this effect which I am ready and
willing to compensate you through the fund for your assistance. If I
hear from you in the time expected, I will give you a private number of
where we will communicate with immediate effect for more details.

Thanks in anticipation.

Jacob Zuma JR
South African Royal Palace

NOTE: I am sending you this letter from library, so if you are
interested in assisting me, please reply me urgently.

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