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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: "Mr. K B" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kennethabrown02@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:33:43 -0800
Subject: PLS I WAIT FOR UR RESPONSE!

FROM: MR. KENNETH B. KWAME
TEL: +233 246 563 523.
 
My dear friend,
Thanks for giving me your time. Please be patient and read my letter to you. I am a staff of a commercial bank group here in Accra Ghana attached to the Private Banking Services. I am contacting you concerning a customer and an investment placed under our banks management few years ago and I am contacting you independently of our investigations and no one is informed of this communication in which I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you.
In 2000, the subject matter; ref: bb/tsb/bank/73 came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our Private Banking Services Department. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 22.35 million United States Dollars, which he wished to have us turn over on his behalf. I was the officer assigned to his case and I made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of the Private Banking Services Department, especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our bank. We met on numerous occasions prior to any investment being placed and I encouraged him to consider various growth funds with prime ratings. The favoured route in my advice to customers is to start by assessing data on 600 traditional stocks, bond managers and alternative investments. Based on my advice, we spun the money around various opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of operation, the accrued profit and interest stood
In mid 2004, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments there in Europe. He directed that I liquidate the funds and had it deposited with a firm in Europe. I informed him that our bank would have to make special arrangements to have this done and in order not to circumvent due process, the bank would have to make a 9.5 % deduction from the funds to cater for the banking and statutory charges. He complained about the charges but later came around when I explained to him the complexities of the task he was asking from us. Cash movement across borders has become especially strict since the incident of 9/11. I contacted our affiliates to have the fund moved to Spain where he intended to make use of it. I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the fund deposited in a security consultancy firm here in Accra, Ghana first o f all prior to moving it to Spain
This was the last communication we had and it transpired around 25th November 2004. In June last year, I received a call from the security firm informing me of the inactivity of that particular portfolio. This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact that I managed the private banking sector, I was the only one who knew about the deposit, and I could not understand why he had not come forward to claim his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate him without success. After a while I received information that a person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in Cannes, South of France. We were soon enough able to identify the body and cause of death was confirmed.  I immediately launched an investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert about the situation and also to come forward to claim his estate. If you are familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronize our se rvices usually prefer not only an
What I wish to relate to you will smack off unethical practice but I want you to understand something. It is only an outsider to the banking world who finds the internal politics there aberrational. The world of private banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for those who occupy certain offices and oversee certain portfolios. You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I propose. There is US$ 30,370,000.00 deposited and I alone have the deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless I instruct them to do so. I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as far as the finance firm is concerned, the transaction with our deceased customer was concluded when I sent the fund to the firm. All outstand ing interactions in relation to t
MY PROPOSAL: I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct the finance firm to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you in 50% for me and 50% for you. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. I would have gone ahead to ask the fund be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit. But on the other hand, you as a foreigner would easily pass as the beneficiary with the rights to claim. I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you in a few days. I will officially communicate with the security company and instruct them to release the deposit to you.  With these things: all is done. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you find no interest in this project, you should disca
I ask also that you do not be vindictive or destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this message and forget that I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may not know this but people like me who have made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a criminal and what I do; I do not find against good conscience. This may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones way once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by and I hope you understand because for once I found myself in total control and face to face with my destiny. These chances won't pass me by. I ask that you do not destroy my chance please. If you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity t o provide them with new opportuni
Contact me through the above info and if you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a conclusion. Please observe these instructions religiously. Note that I am a family man; happily married with two kids. I send you this letter not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences might be, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting soon.
I wait for your urgent response please.
 
MR. KENNETH B. KWAME
TEL: +233 246 563 523.
E-mail: kennethabrown01@yahoo.co.jp
 
 
 
 

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