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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: "Frank Kibaki" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <frankkibaki@aol.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:02:48 +0100
Subject: Soliciting for Assistance

Hello

My name is Frank Kibaki and my Sister Jane Kibaki, we are Kenyan Nationals, but are currently at the refugee camp here in Accra-Ghana. Please I will like you to assist me and my sister to retrieve and receive our consignment over there in United States that contains some reasonable amount of value in United States dollars and some quantity of gold and Diamond, which I cannot specify. The consignment is presently in United States . The consignments got to the United States through a diplomatic delivery company. The fact is that he was supposed to deliver the consignment to a very nice man who agreed to assist us as our guiding over there in United States . when the diplomat got to United States after clearing the consignment from the Airport, he call the man to make arrangement for the delivery, but response he go was that the man hard a fatal car accident which lead to his death. All the demurrages have already been paid by the security company, custom check report has also b
een paid and he also assisted us

If you accept to assist us in being our new beneficiary then get back to me as soon as possible to enable me furnish you with the contact details of the courier agent in United States so you can personally contact him and forward your address to him for immediate delivery of our consignment to you.

We await your urgent response.

Thanks and God bless you

Frank & Jane Kibaki.

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