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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: CO-OPERATIVE BANK OF KENYA <anekwecollins84@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <transferdepartment@co-operativebnkkenya.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:08:21 -0700
Subject: YOUR FUND TRANSFER WITH CO-OPERATIVE BANK OF KENYA

Attn Dear


I wish to notify to you through this medium that your outstanding transaction has been perfected and the fund release application as earlier made in your favor has been approved. The approval was granted this morning by the appropriate department.

Meanwhile, due to the bureaucratic bottleneck that has militated against the completion of the direct transfer of this fund to your account in past, an arrangement has this morning been concluded with our affiliate bank in Kenya to carry out the transfer. We resorted to this arrangement in order to avoid some bureaucratic challenges which emanates when an international transfer has been unnecessarily delayed. In a nutshell.


Your detail information has been forwarded to the bank, and you shall be contacted in due course for further directive on how you should receive the fund. However, you should remain advised to cooperate with them as to facilitate swift transfer of this fund. Finally, to hasten up the transaction, state below is the detail information of the affiliate bank for you to contact the bank and then remind them of your fund with them.

CO-OPERATIVE BANK OF KENYA
Address:P. O. Box 48400–00100, Nairobi Kenya
Chief Financial Officer Dr.Gideon Maina Muriuki
Office Telephone: +254-715661016
Fax: +254-718890725
Contact Email: transferdepartment@co-operativebnkkenya.com


Kindly furnish your details as stated below.

Full name:::
Home address::
Phone numbers::
Country/City::
Occupation::
Bank credential::

Once more I wish to commend your mutual cooperation on this transaction and do be in touch with me as you deal with the Co-operative Bank of Kenya.

Regards
Elizabeth Nderito

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