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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: "bamba konan" <bkonan153@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: bambakonan2@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:34:42 +0100
Subject: Good Day Schultz,

>From Mr. Bamba Konan,
Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoire

Good Day Schultz,

I beg your excuse for the inconveniences that this mail may cause to you.
My name is Mr. Bamba Konan, I work with one of the local Banks here in
Abidja Cote d'Ivoire,
I am the personal accounts manager to one Engr.Norman.R. Schultz, a National
of your country,who owned a construction company here in Ivory Coast (Cote
D'Ivoire).
My client, his wife, and their three children were involved in the ill fated
Kenya Airways crash in the coasts of Abidjan in January 2002 in which all
passengers on board died.Since then I have made several inquiries to your
embassy to locate any of my clientsextended relatives but has been
unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his
last name over the Internet, to see if I could locate any member of his
family hence I came across your contact.

The particular interest is this huge deposit with our bank here in,where the
deceased has an account valued at about US$25 million United States dollars.
Being the personal a/c manager of the decease's bank account, the bank has
issued me a notice to provide the next of kin/beneficiary or else the bank
will declare the account unserviceable and thereby forfeit the funds to the
bank treasury. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for
over the past 3 years now,I hereby seek your consent (with due respect and
Honor) to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the
same last names with him, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid
to you and then you and I will share the money 50 / 50. All I require is
your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law.
Please provid me with your full Name and Address,Date of birth,Telephone and
Fax Number for emidiate doccumentation.

kindly reach me via my private email as indicated above for further details.

Thanks in advance for your anticipated cooperation.

Cordially,
Mr. Bamba Konan.

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