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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: vkabila1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:16:56 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Urgent=20and=20confidential=2E?=

Attn Please,

I am Victoria Kabila, the second wife of the Late President of democratic
Republic of Congo, Laurent desire Kabila who was assassinated on January
16th 2001 by one of his security aids.

I am under severe pressure from the present government headed by the first
son of my late husband, Mr. Joseph abila who felt victimized due to the
incessant family problems between his biological mother and I. He has seized
all the deposited funds registered under my care by my late husband, through
the help of his friend who is the Governor of Central Bank of Congo.

However, I have US$87,000,000 Million (Eighty seven Million United State
Dollars) currently in a coded security company vault abroad, which I now
intend to use to establish a profitable business venture abroad to enable
me and my family start life all over again. As a result, I am urgently in
need of a very reliable investor participant, who is not known as my associate,
that I could entrust with the PIN and Certificate of Deposit to help me
remove the fund from the security vault.

I cannot successfully claim it myself as the government searchlight is still
on my immediate family; hence I crave your assistance. You will in addition
bank and assist me in investing (with my lawyers approval on project) as
a front until the situation becomes more favorable for us to now meet and
discuss the way forward.

Finally, more details on the logistics and modalities of the transaction
will be given to you on my receiving your acceptance letter. I do not need
to remind you of the absolute secrecy and confidentiality that this transaction
demands.

Very respectfully,

Victoria U. Kabila.

Presently, I am here in Accra Ghana with Henry my first son
and two others, contact us on above e mail.




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