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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. Mthew Zikalala" <sbsa@safrica.co.za>
Reply-To: zikalalamathew@mail.ru
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2020 15:08:30 +0200
Subject: Greetings.


From:Dr. Mathew Zikalala Telephone: +27837279295 Email: zikalalamathew@mail=
.ru Date;2/08/2020 (CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL) Hello, My Name is Dr. Mathew Zik=
alala the Chief Operating Officer of Standard Bank of South Africa and I am=
in need of a reliable foreigner to carry out this important deal. An accou=
nt was opened in my bank by one of my customer in the name of MR. THOMAS BA=
HIA a Dutch National from Germany who made a fixed deposit of $11,500,000.0=
0 (Eleven Million, Five hundred Thousand United States Dollars) and never s=
how up again and I later discovered that he died with his entire family mem=
bers on a plan crash and below is the link to the crash. http://www.nytimes=
.com/2010/05/13/world/middleeast/13libya.html Now I want to present a forei=
gner as next of kin to late Thomas so we can make the claim because if no b=
ody makes the claim, the fund will be taken by the Government as unclaimmed=
funds and it will be stolen by Government currupt officials and that I do =
not want to happen and you can contact me if you are interested so I can gi=
ve you more detailed information about this transaction. Thanks. Dr. Mathew=
Zikalala.

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