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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. Roberto Manucho"<robertman45009@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:48:36 +0200
Subject: From Mr. Roberto Manucho

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<FONT color=#000000 face="Helvetica">From Mr. Roberto Manucho</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT size=3 face="Calibri">+44-741-460409</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT color=#000000 face="Helvetica">I know you will be surprised to read from me, but please consider this letter as a request from a family in dire need of your assistance. Firstly, I must introduce myself, my name is Mr. Roberto Manucho, the only son of Mr. Santos Manucho, an Angolan tobacco farmer in Zimbabwe, I am presently residing in the UK.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT color=#000000 face="Helvetica">I got your contact information from the world wild Information Exchange Control {WWIEC} during my search for a reliable and God fearing person that can assist my family. I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust worthy person I can do business with and by their recommendations I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business and on behalf of my Mother who is a widow and very sick at the moment as such we wish to come back closer to Zimbabwe hoping that the new government may favour us, I decided to solicit for your assistance to transfer the sum of US$10M (Ten Million United States Dollars) into your personal or company account any were in the world not particularly South Africa to avoid any loophole from the old government as we watch the new of Zimbabwe.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT color=#000000 face="Helvetica">My father was a very known and wealthy tobacco commercial black farmer in Harare, the economic city of Zimbabwe before he was killed by the agents of the ruling government of President Robert Mugabe for his alleged support and sympathy for Zimbabwean white farmers and opposition party controlled by the White Zimbabweans, so happy that Robert Mugabe is out and once again hoping that things might change.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT color=#000000 face="Helvetica">Before my father died in a private hospital. He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he deposited a huge sum of USD$10,000.000 (Ten Million United States dollars) in a vault abroad, the total money was meant for the purchase of new machinery and chemicals for the farms and to establish new farms in Lesotho and Swaziland.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT color=#000000 face="Helvetica">He used my name as the only son/child and also his next of kin in deposit of the fund. He then explained to me that I should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purposes, (such as real estate management, oil, gold and foreign trade).etc.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT color=#000000 face="Helvetica">From the above, you will understand that the lives and future of my family depends on this money as much as I will be very grateful if you can assist my mother and I. We are now living in the UK as Asylum seekers and the financial laws of the UK does not allow Asylum seekers certain rights to such huge amount of money. In view of this, I cannot invest this money on my own; hence I am asking you to assist my mother and me to transfer this money to your bank account for investment purposes. For your efforts, we are prepared to offer you 25% of the total fund, while 5% will be set aside for local and international expenses and 70% will be kept for us. Finally, modalities on how the transfer will be done will be conveyed to you once we establish trust and confidence between ourselves.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT color=#000000 face="Helvetica">Thanks and God Bless.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT color=#000000 face="Helvetica">Best Regards</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT color=#000000 face="Helvetica">Roberto Manucho</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT size=3 face="Calibri">+44-741-460409</FONT></DIV>
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