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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: Queen kayumba <queenkayumba30@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 13:14:03 +0000
Subject: Hello Dearest

Hello Dearest.



I am more than happy in your urgent reply to my mail.

How is your day? hope all is fine.?.

Mine is a little bit cold over here in Dakar Senegal.

In this camp we are only allowed to go out only on Mondays and Fridays of

the weeks.Its just like one staying in the prison and i hope by Gods grace
i will come out here soon.


I was the only Child of my late parents,I don't have any relatives now whom
I can go to all our relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only
person i have now is Sister Mary Jane and Rev Father Stephen Benet. Who is
the pastor of the (ST. PAULS CHURCH) here in the refugee camp, He has been
very nice to me since i came here but i am not living with him rather I am
leaving in the women hostel (in this camp) because here they have two
hostels one for the men the other for women. I have temporary telephone
number belonging to a Rev Sister Mary Jane. This Rev Sister just traveled
to Overseas on a missionary work sent to her by the United nation. In the
meantime i am using her telephone number here now (+221 765 035 521) Please
i want you to call me at from 10:00am in the morning GMT London Time to
6:00pm in the evening OK. As a refugee here i don't have any right or
privileged to any thing be it money or whatever because it is against the
law of this country.I want to go back to my studies because i only attended
my first year before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this
situation now took place.


Please listen to this,i have my late father's statement of account and
death certificate here with me which i will send to you later,because when
he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a leading bank which he
used my name as the next of kin,the amount in question is $3.7M(Three
Million seven Hundred Thousand Dollars) So i will like you to help me
transfer this money to your account over there in your country and from it
you can send some money for me to get my traveling documents and air ticket
to come over to meet with you.I kept this secret to people in the camp here
the only person that knows about it is the Reverend because he is like a
father to me.

So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and don't
tell it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and the money if
people gets to know about it. Remember i am giving you all this
information due to the trust i deposed on you.I like honest and
understanding people,truthful and open minded someone like you said to me,
my dear i promise to do anything to make you happy if you will let me go
out from this critical condition of mine. Please i will like you to send to
me your full data in my private email address:(Queenkayumba2@outlook.com)
such as;



(1) your Home address----------------

(2) your full name -------------------

(3) your phone number-----------------

(4) yours picture------------------

(5) your Age-----------------------



Meanwhile i will like you to call me(+221 765 035 521) like i said i have a
lot to tell you.

This is my late parents Picture with me long time ago when they was alive.

Have a nice day and think about me.

Awaiting to hear from you soonest

Yours sincere,

Queen Kayumba.

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