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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:
- This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "i got your address from " (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
- "robert mugabe" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: "Mrs.Maria Pfebve" <"no-reply@"@afsvd.de>
Reply-To: <mrsmaria@1email.eu>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:43:03 -0700
Subject: Re: Dear Partner ...
Mrs. Maria Pfebve
34 Smith Street Johannesburg South Africa
Dear Partner,
Thanks very much for response to my email. The details of what happened which I tried to let you know in my last email is as follows, I am desperately looking for a foreign partner whom I can trust to handle some investment or fund movement. Honestly I have not contacted anyone else in respect of this transaction which means that you are the only one this message was sent to. I am of course Mrs. Maria Pfebve wife of late Mr.Peter Pfebve, who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people in early 2000. I am writing from South Africa. I got your address from the internet through the Consultancy directory during my search for a reliable and honest person to transact this business with. I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party-president Robert Mugabe. Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly s
ponsored the war veterans and som
Best regards,
Mrs.Maria Pfebve.
(For the Family).
Please read about Problems in Zimbabwe that lead to the death of my husband from the link below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm
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