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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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Please note about this email:

Fraud email example:

From: "James Kabila" <james1@kabila-dynasty.net>
Reply-To: jkdynasty@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 00:18:38 +0000
Subject: Urgent Please..........

Securing This Funds With You.

I am Mr. James Kabila, the first son to the second wife of the assassinated President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Late Laurent Desire Kabila. My mother got your contact information and asked me to contact you requesting your help in a business transaction as her trusted, reliable and recommended partner.


Six months before the assassination of my father, Laurent Desire Kabila. He had used my name deposited the flat sum of Fifty One Million United States Dollars=us$51m in a vault firm in Europe. The Vault Company does not know the actual content of the trunk boxes deposited with them because my father declared it to be precious metals. This money was to be used for his second tenure election campaign bid but unfortunately, his own personal aide (bodyguard) assassinated him in a palace coup on the early hours of January 16th, 2001. We are afraid to inform you that we have not been part of his detectorship rule that actually caused us political damages and led to his death. May God forgive all of us.

Since my father's death, my step mother has continued to be extremely mean and discriminatory to us in the family scheme of things because his son, Mr. Joseph Kabila, now rule as the president of former Zaire now known as Democratic Republic of Congo. She has even arbitrarily accused my mother of having master minded our father's assassination and all sorts of groundless accusations. As a result of all these, I decided to move my family to West Africa in Nigeria where we are currently residing pending on when my father's funds would be released to us. Right now, I am staying with my family here in Nigeria but as refugees.

As it is, with the help of the documents related to the funds in Europe as prove of ownership, I have now decided to divert this money for our own personal use as our condition remains unbearable but we would want to get it transferred outside the continent for onward investment purposes. We do not want to invest here due to the volatile, security and sensitive status of the region. As an international partner, I genuinely solicit that you kindly help me and my family transfer this money into your country through your personal or company bank account for safe keeping pending my immediate arrival for onward investments, which we are going to rely on you heavily to help us materialize.

I suggest that this money be paid into your account as a contract fund through the Vault Company’s affiliated bank over there in Europe. I must stress here that there is no risk involvement of any kind since our hired Attorney have mapped out a very perfect and smooth-free transfer plans that will be concluded within a maximum of few working days of receiving your approval.

We have resolved to offer you 20% of the money for your extreme assistance and 5% of it will be for all kinds of expenses you will incur in the course of transferring this money. The rest will be for investments in your country or anywhere you might suggest as I have indicated earlier on. Further discussions will commence when we hear from you but do not forget the absolute confidentiality and mutual trust required in this transaction.

Kindly contact us via e-mail: jkdynasty1@yahoo.com


God Bless you.


Faithfully,
Mr. James Kabila.

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