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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: "Dr.Mathew Zikalala" <zdrmathew.msn@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 21:04:23 +0100
Subject: Re: Dear partner Urgent Deal Very Confidential

Dear Partner

Thank you for your email.

First of all, I will want to assure you that I am in full control of
this transaction and I know how to go about it and this deal is 100%
risk free as all modalities are in place and nobody is going to find
out this deal.

In 2010 an account was opened in my bank by one of my customers in the
name of MR. THOMAS BAHIA a Dutch/South African National from Germany
who made a fixed deposit of $11,500,000.00 (Eleven Million, Five
hundred Thousand United States Dollars) and never show up again and I
later discovered that he died with his entire family members on a
plane crash that occurred in Libya on the 12th of May 2010 and below
is a link for your
view..http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/world/middleeast/13libya.html

All efforts I made to locate any of his family members failed and now
I want to present a foreigner like you as next of kin to late Thomas
so we can make the claim and share the funds in the ratio of 50% for
me, 40% for you and 10% to cover our expenses after the deal.

Please note that I will use my position to influence the whole
transaction and all documents that will be needed to carry out this
transaction will be provided by me and all transactions will be bank
to bank transaction but you must keep this transaction very
confidential to yourself alone.. Also after the deal all documents
used for this deal will be retrieved and be destroyed to avoid any
future trace of the funds.

Although we have not met each other before, I see our dealings as God
divine intervention and I hope that you will not disappoint me when
the funds are finally transferred to your Bank account and I have no
choice involving you because I need a foreigner like you to carry out
the deal.

Actually, I decided to carry out this transaction with you in order to
help our families and others in need with the funds rather than
allowing South African corrupt Government officials to steal the money
since nobody was coming forward to claim the funds.

I sincerely hope that we will work together in truth without having
any atom of greed to cheat friendship / relationship, as I will
finally come over to your country with my family for settlement and
investments once this fund gets into your account.

However, for us to start this transaction, I will need the following
information below:

1. Your full names
2. Your contact
3 your private telephone
4.Your occupation
5. Age.

As soon as I get the above information, I will put up an application
of claims and submit them to my bank audit and claim department on
your behalf for approval processing through a family friend.

Please do not inform your bank about these funds yet because the South
African bank will advise your bank directly when the funds are ready
for transfer to officially inform your bank the source of the funds
and the reason for transfer which will be found for investments and
also we can decide to secure the funds here with another bank and
transfer funds to your accounts in bits.

Please keep all transactions very confidential to your self-alone
because of the nature of the deal and my sensitive position in my bank
and you are free to ask me questions whenever you are confused.

Please always check your email to avoid any delay in our deal.

Waiting for the requested information to enable us to proceed and keep
all transactions very confidential.

Thanks,
Dr. Mathew..

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