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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: Joseph Kajoba <sdhjhsd@yahoo.es>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 05:50:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Please acknowledge receipt of my e-mail to you

Dear Partner,
 
I am writing you this letter due to the living condition that my sister and I face as asylum seekers here in South Africa, my name is Joseph Kajoba , the only surviving son of late Mr. Anthony Kajoba  who was brutally murdered in our farm house at Sandvlakte in the Aranos district of Namibia)
 
My late father was a commercial farmer and he was very successful until his sudden death and I was actually smuggled into the neighboring country South Africa for the fear of my life, my mother dead four years ago after long battle with cancer of the breast and my little sister has come to join me in South Africa as the trauma of the heartless murder of my father is hunting her and we are worried that the perpetrators might return to assassinate the rest of the family as their seek to grab our farm.
 
At the moment here in South Africa, foreigners are been killed every day in what is called xenophobic attack (http://ewn.co.za/2015/04/17/Overnight-xenophobic-violence-in-Johannesburg) and I am worried about my life and my little sisters life which is the reason I want to solicited your assistance to receive the total sum of $13,800,000.00 (Thirteen Million Eight Hundred Thousand United States dollars) which is my fathers money deposited in safe keeping company last year which he intended to use for the purchase of farming machineries later this year.
 
With your consent and approval, I like to nominate you as my dads business associate so that the security company can release our fund to you as I am not eligible to do any business in the next five years when my asylum status will allow me to be integrated into the society and permit me to do any sort of business. If it will be possible, I will like you to be our fund manager and also adopt me and my sister so that we can leave with you while we study and learn more about business opportunities in your country.
 
If you agree to help me in this endeavor, you will get 30% of the total fund while you manage the balance for me and my sister until we are capable to handle some of our own business activities.
 
Kindly reply me with your thoughts and I shall give you more details regarding the fund.
 
Yours sincerely.
 
Mr. Joseph Kajoba.
Johannesburg, Gauteng,
South Africa 2001
Tel: +27 73 414 9985

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