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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: beatrice kamani <beat_1965@zwallet.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:27:40 +0000
Subject: Seeking for your assistance.

Beatrice Kamani

assylum camp

rue c 45 x

cocody abidjan cote d'ivoire





dear good one, i am the only daughter of late Mr. Stephen Kamani, my late father and my mother died on the same day during the war that took place in sierra Leonne.

my late father was the to late auditor general general during the Sankoh's regime.



before the war came in sierra leone, my late father was directed to deposit the total sum of US$ 5 million in a bank in Ivory Coast ,this fund was deposited in Abidjan Cote d' ivoire .

the rebels shot the auditor general and his wife and also turned to shoot my father and my mother at the same day.

before my late father died, he told me the secret to run to cote d' ivoire and he sounded it as a note that i should seek for a foreign partner who will assist me for the claim of the fund so that i can travel out of africa.

when i finished my secondary shool in my poor maternal home last september 2003, i decided to come down to cote d' ivoire early last month november 2004 for the claim of the fund,unfortunately another war started again in cote d' ivoire where i am

residing in the refugee camp looking for a way to accomplish the claim of the fund because i am with the deposit document.

i have go to the bank and was informed that they shifted the fund to europe for security reasons because of the war.the director said that i should seek for a foreign business partner who will claim the fund on my behalf in europe so that they will issue a letter of authorization to the european correspondence for the release of the fund to my foreign partner as the trustee.

please try to assist me in this transaction to claim the fund on my behalf.

i cry everyday because of suffer and always remember the war in my country sierra leone and now war in the country where i came for refuge and claim of the fund.

if you can assist me,please declare your interest and send me your full name and contact address ,including your private telephone ,fax number and your current photo.if i receive your full informations, i will also send you my photo, refugee camp id and

my photo so that we will know ourselves.

if you send me your full required informations, i will submit to the bank so that they will send a letter of authorization for the european bank to release the fund to you as the trustee.

as soon as you receive the fund, i will like to come and meet you in your country and will like to live and nationalise also in your country.

may GOD bless you as you consider my proposal.



yours faithfully,

Beatrice Kamani.


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