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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: "Joice Muguru" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <joicemuguru@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 23:18:03 +0100
Subject: Business proposal

>From Joice Muguru
PHONE+(27)67 656 6620
Johannesburg
South Africa
joicemuguru@yahoo.com

Dear Sir,

I am Mrs. Jooice Mujuru from Zimbabwe. The wife of late General Solomon Mujuru, I am presently residing partly in South Africa, because of still political circumstances, I got your contact from a business directory here in South Africa and I on behalf of my family I decided to contact you for assistance to transfer the sum of US $200, 000, 000, 00 (Two Hundred Million United States Dollars) inherited from my late father into your personal or company account.


“I and the former special advisor to the President we were assigned by the President (PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe) to purchase arms from South Africa, saw this as a golden opportunity and diverted the money which we divided and I got a total of US Dollars 200 Million. You should “contact a reliable foreign partner He Said to Me In his Sick Bed) to assist you to transfer this money out of Africa for investment purposes. I deposited the Boxes containing money in your name as diplomatic consignment, and you can claim it at any time you found a reliable foreign partner”,

I will be very grateful if you can assist us confidentially to move this money outside Africa, Please contact me with the above contact details, if you are interested to assist us but if you can't please keep it very confidential. I have all the depository documents in my custody and have perfected every arrangement.

Best Regards
Mrs J. Mujuru {for the family}.

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