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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: "johnson kelvin" <johnsonkelvin1963@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnsonkelvin22@yahoo.de
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:54:34 -0800
Subject: Read & Reply.

Dear Friend,

The purpose of this letter is to briefly introduce
myself and I would like to intimate you with
certain facts that I believe would be of interest to
you.

My name is Mr Johnson Kelvin,I work in executive
capacity with CARGO HANDLING & SECURITY TRUST
COMPANY in (London)
I joined the services of this company in
1985. I decided to contact you believing that you
will become my overseas Business assocaites in
acquiring an investment placed under our management
more than seven (7) years ago.

I have worked with this company for over 20 years,
within this period of time I watched with meticulous
precision on how Head of State and government
functionaries have been moving huge sums of money
with the aid of their foreign partners abroad. They
bring in these consignment and declare the content
as jewelries, Gold, Precious Stones, Family
Treasure, Documents,etc.

These people have at one time or the other deposited
consignments with us and their foreign partners,
relatives and Next of Kin are Claiming most of these
consignment and a lot more are laying here unclaimed
for as much as 7 years, as no available information
to anybody except the depositors, and most of them
are dead. Since the inception of the year 2004,the Management
changed!the procedure of claiming of consignments.
As soon as you are able to produce all the
information as contained in the secret file of the
company as regard the consignment, it will be
released to you upon demand.

From our records, more than 10 consignments
belonging to these people has been claimed in the
past six months and this is why I am seeking for
your co-operation and assistance to help execute
this pending deal which has been unclaimed for so
long as I know no one will ever come forward to
claim it because the deceased left no next of kin.
The amount in question is very small compared to
what my office has sent overseas for this people. I
will provide all the documents needed for this
purpose as I was the account officer who handled
most this transaction on behalf of this client.

For the release of the consignment, Our Overseas
correspondent will demand for some documents and the
security code of the consignment, you will call on
me to supply you with every detailed Information as
regard the consignment. As soon as they have
confirmed it to be correct, the company will invite
you for the collection, or you may insist that the
consignment be delivered to you instead.

I hope to hear from you to enable me provide you
with the complete picture of this deal.
Funish me with the following

Full Names/Mailing address/Telephone and fax numbers.

Expecting yor urgent Response.

Mr Johnson Kelvin.

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