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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: "Captain Juliet Van Zyl" <jvanzyl@saps.co.za>
Reply-To: bonganijoseph1966@thegolf.co.za
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 03:07:41 +0530
Subject: A Very Important Message/Compensation Funds for you.]]



Attn: Sir/Madam,


TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN


Our National Fraud Intelligence Unit and National Fraud Intelligence
Report for the third quarter of 2021 had received confidential and
detailed reports of your transaction with some scammers and fraud monsters
in the past, who had stolen thousands of money from you with the pretense
that huge amount of funds would be transferred to you as beneficiary of
funds. We have arrested some group of fraudsters in connection with fraud
involvements and we recovered documents and letters of transaction
communications with some of their victims. Your case in particular
involves one or more persons who intentionally act secretly to deprive you
of something of value for their own benefits. We must prosecute all those
criminals involved in stealing and depriving you of your hard earned money
under the Fraud and CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT section 35(3)(a) which gives a
statutory definition of the criminal offense of fraud, defining it in
three classes, fraud by false presentation, fraud by failing to disclose
real information, and fraud by abuse of position. It provides that a
person found guilty of fraud is liable to a fine or imprisonment of up to
twelve months on summary conviction, or a fine and imprisonment of up to
ten years on conviction of indictment.


It is our sworn duty and obligation to trace these fraudsters; we have
recovered all the stolen money and have prosecuted them to various jails
and prisons. We are also responsible for increasing protection for
European, American, Asian and African economy from the harm caused by
these fraudsters. We worked with a wide range of partners with the aim of
making fraud more difficult to commit in the world at large. Scammers are
out there, and unfortunately women and aged people are often their prime
targets. According to the Government Accountability Office, women and aged
people who are often their targeted victims, lose billions of Dollars a
year to financial fraud. Government and law enforcement efforts to stop
them have tended to be scatter shot, with little coordinated efforts,
banks which are supposed to be on the lookout for suspicious transactions
have not been sufficiently vigilant.


Our Fraud Intelligence Team gives you the practical insights, analysis and
tools to combat fraud, whether you’re in the corporate or non-commercial
sector. It brings you legal development statute and case law, and
first-hand counter fraud professional advice, for both internal and
external fraud threats, on tackling potentially corrosive and destructive
costs to your organization. The World Bank President (Mr. David R.
Malpass) has given us and the South African Reserve Bank a serious warning
to make sure that the fund should be released to the beneficiaries.
Because of the warnings, South African Reserve Bank has earmarked the
total sum of US$1,700,000,000 (One Billion Seven Hundred Million United
States Dollars) in recovered fraudulent fund to ensure that all the
victims are settled. All the beneficiaries are entitled to receiving
US$700,000 (Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) each and
Standard Bank of South Africa has been chosen by South African Reserve
Bank to handle these settlements. In order to deliver a personalized,
responsive service and to improve our services in refunding you back all
the money you lost to scammers, please forward all your personal details
to the Standard Bank officer in charge to his contact details below:

Name: Mr. Bongani Joseph
STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA
Email: bonganijoseph1966@thegolf.co.za
with this reference:SAPS-14/17/SARB/SBSA
Tel: +27-71-007-6218

We look forward to your urgent response in this regards, and we stand to
serve you right.


Very truly yours,



Captain Juliet Van Zyl










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