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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Patrick Khumalo" <patrickkhumalo2@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 23:04:17 +0200
Subject: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

FROM PATRICK KHUMALO
CITY OF JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA
PHONE:+27 83-36-81-848

Dear

My name is my PATRICK KHUMALO, the eldest son of MR DAVID KHUMALO, of
ZIMBABWE. It might be a surprise to you where I got your contact address, i
got it on the internet here in South Africa when i was making an intensive
research for my investment in your country then i decided to contact you
directly.

During the current crises against the farmers of Zimbabwe by the supporters
of our President,ROBERT MUGABE to claim all the white owned farms in our
country, he ordered all the white farmers to surrender their farms to his
party members and their followers.

My father was one of the great and best farmers in the country and knowing
that he did not support the president’s political ideology, the president’s
supporters invaded my father’s farm burnt down everything, shot him and as a
result of the wounds sustained, he became sick and died after five days.

And after his death, I decided to move out of Zimbabwe for the safety of my
life to South-Africa. BUT, before he died HE WROTE HIS WILL, which reads
"(MY BELOVEED SON ,I WISH TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE SUM OF
USD$25.5MILLION {TWENTY FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS}
WHICH I DEPOSITED IN A BOX WITH A SECURITY COMPANY IN JOHANNESBURG
(SOUTH-AFRICA). IN CASE OF MY ABSENCE ON EARTH CAUSED BY DEATH ONLY".This
money was deposited in a box as a germ stone to avoid much demurrage in the
Security Company.

You should solicit for reliable foreign partner to assist you to transfer
this money out of SOUTH AFRICA for investment purpose. I deposited the money
in your name and it can be claimed by you alone with the deposit code. your
mother has all the documents. Take good care of your mother and brother."

From the above, you will understand that the lives and future of my family
depends on this money as much, I will be very grateful if you can assist us.
I am now living in South-Africa as POLITICAL ASYLUM SEEKERS and the
financial law of SOUTH-AFRICA does not allow ASYLUM SEEKERS certain
financial rights to such huge amount of money .In view of this, I cannot
invest this money in South-Africa, hence I am asking you to assist me
transfer this money out of South-Africa for investment purposes.

For your efforts, I am prepared to offer you 20% of the total fund, while 5%
will be set aside for local and international expenses and 75% will be kept
for me and my family .

Finally modalities on how the transfer will be done will be conveyed to you
once we establish trust and confidence between ourselves. Looking forward to
your urgent reply .For detailed information, please contact me on my e-mail
address or preferably via phone + 27 83-36-81-848
NOTE: THE KEY WORD TO THIS TRANSACTION IS ABSOLUTE CONFIDENTIALITY AND
SECRECY. THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% RISK FREE. YOUR URGENT RESPONSE WILL BE
HIGHLY
APPRECIATED.

All the best,

PATRICK KHUMALO

(FOR THE FAMILY)

N/B: You can as well read more about the crises in my country and about this
situation on the following sites:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html
Waiting for your prompt and positive response ..
Thanks.

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