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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: Mary <mmayyhrkhu@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrs.marykhum@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:14:52 +0200
Subject: Dear

>From Mrs. Mary Kate Khumalo
14 Cedar Road Fourways
Johannesburg 2191
South Africa
Email: mrs.marykhum@gmail.com

Dear,

I hope that you and your family are in good health. This letter of
mine may come as a surprise to you; however it is because of the
nature of what is happening to me and my family that urged me to
contact you. I did send you this same letter two weeks ago, but I am
not sure if it did get to you since I have not heard from you. I
received your email address through South Africa Chamber of Commerce,
which I understood is not the best way to contact you but I did so
because of the nature of my request and the urgent attention it
requires, and I apologize for this inconvenience.

My name is MRS. MARY KATE KHUMALO, the wife of late MR.JERRY KHUMALO
of Bettsbridge Zimbabwe. At the height of the present political crises
in our country, in which the white farmers in our country are being
killed and ripped off their belongings by the supporters of our
president, Mr. Robert G. Mugabe, in their efforts to reclaim all the
white owned farms in our country. My husband and my only son were
brutally killed in a painful death in their struggle to protect some
white farmers who ran to take refuge in our farm. My husband, during
his life on earth was a prominent indigenous farmer and also trades in
oil, diamond and gold. He publicly opposed the crude policies and
crime against humanity on the white farmers by Mr. Robert Mugabe and
his followers, and as a result of which the president’s followers
invaded our farm, burnt down everything and brutally killed my late
husband and my only son on February 2015 due to their role in trying
to protect these white farmers, and using media law restriction to
protect their wicked acts, and that not enough, the president and his
followers after winning the last undemocratic elections decided to
confiscate assets of the black indigenous farmers who are opposing his
policies and who supported the white farmers, along with the assets of
these white farmers themselves, which are being presently confiscated.
I therefore decided to move my daughters to the Republic of South
Africa for safety of our life, where we presently seek for temporarily
political asylum.

During my husband's life on earth, he had willed the sum of
(US$15,600.000.00) of our family funds before he met his untimely
death on that faithful day. This he had deposited with a finance and
security company here in South Africa from where he operates most of
his gold and diamond trades to our country. In view of this and with
the present clamp down, killing and confiscating of assets of
supporters of the white farmers presently in our country and also to
secure our family funds from not being stolen or confiscated by
president Mugabe’s regime, I humbly wish to notify you of my intention
to use your name and address as my trustee in transferring our family
funds out of South Africa to any of your overseas account, and also
seek for your honest and trustworthy assistance to help me receive and
accommodate our family funds when it gets into your account.

Please you can go through these below websites for your observation:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1210883.stm
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28152477
http://cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/22/zimbabwe.farmers/
http://cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/03/18/zimbabwe.farmer/

I and my children have agreed to make the under listed provisions:-

1, 20% of our family funds will be given to you for your assistance.
2, 10% of the total funds will be set aside for taxation and any other
expenses that might be incurred in the course of this transaction,
while the remaining 70% will be for me and my family for our future
investment purposes which you will also assistance us with. Please I
hope you will view this very request with favor and much understanding
of our current situation, and will be an honest and reliable person to
deal with, and also bearing in mind the confidential nature of my
request as to protect my family and yourself rendering us the help. I
wait for your kind response.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Mary Kate Khumalo

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