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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: Pedri greg <pedrigreg@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:27:44 +0100
Subject: Your Immediate Assistant Needed.




Good day and how are you. I am Mr Joshua Kurty currently working with Phala
Phala farm owned by the South African president Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa who is
facing an allegation of money laundering based on the millions of US
dollars found in this farm in CASH. Some Namibian nationals that were
working here made away with over US$4,000,000.00 in cash.

The money in question is in total US$64,000,000.00 and those guys made away
with $4M which they saw while the remaining US$60M was hidden elsewhere
inside the same Phala Phala farm. My Boss/president quickly handed the rest
of the US dollars amounting to US$60,000,000.00 to me as his confidant and
instructed me to find a way and move it to an overseas account with
immediate effect, it is in this regard that I am contacting you.

Please note that this matter has to be treated with utmost confidence and
TOP SECRET, if you cannot keep this to yourself and follow my instructions
by respecting his wish please do not reply. After securing the money in
your care we wish to invest it with you until 2028 when his second time in
the office will end.

See this link:
https://www.enca.com/news/ramaphosa-farm-theft-watch-robbery-may-be-linked-ct-gang-report



Best Regards,

Mr. James Kurty

Email: joshuakinney23@gmail.com

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