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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: ken iloka <ken_iloka@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 18:27:31 +0100 (BST)
Subject: How Your Funds Will Be credited Secretly.

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
GENERAL COMPUTING,
KEY TESTED TELEX/ WIRE TRANSFER UNIT
TINUBU SQUARE, LAGOS - NIGERIA
>From The Kenn Iloka
Private Email : ken_iloka@yahoo.co.uk

Personal and confidential,

Overdue Contract Payment.


Dear Sir,

My name is Mr Kenn iloka. I am 28yrs old, just started
work with the Central Bank as a Computer Scientist.My
unit is in charge of wire transfer through Key Tested
Telex ( K.T.T) and wire transfer bank to bank (swift
system).

Several times in my computer your name and contract
payment has been appearing as pending but for the fact
that I would not like to sabotage the trust given to
me to be in this position, that was why I keep calm.

After a serious taught, I decided to contact you not
minding the risk of sending this message across to
you, because these top officials of the CBN, can never
tell you the truth about your money rather allow you
to spend and pay all you have without getting anything
in return.

Now I am out to take this risk and make this transfer
to your designated bank account if you will promise me
of my Security I will wire this with out the knowledge
of any body or any top official in the bank as soon as
I wire this funds through (SWIFT PROCESS), I will
immediately run away from the bank and come up to meet
you in your country.This is a mafia set-up of which I
am ready to do now because

I am not ready to work in Nigeria here for life
because of the instability of this country.
The only instrument I need right now is a newrelease
hard diskette(COMPUTERONIC KTT DRIVE 3000 STORAGE
FACILITY CAPACITOR 1990) which I will use to store all
your information's.After storing all your information
on this diskette, I will immediately make the
transfer.

I will achieve this within 24 Banking hours.This is
the only way you will get your payment.On confirmation
of the funds in your account, I will destroy the
diskette and the tracer code and run away immediately.
Please, send me a go ahead order immediately through
my private e-mail address: Ken_iloka@yahoo.co.uk

Yours Faithfully,
Kenn Iloka


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