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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: cecilea_ken@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 05:11:20 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CECILEA?=

Hello dear,
How are you today? It really gives me the pleasure to write you this
pathetic and emotional heart bleeding mail which i know will come to you

as a surprise even though we hardly know each other personally.
BUT I MUST CONFESS THAT I GOT YOUR CONTACT IN MY DESPERATE SEARCH IN
THE NET TO FIND AN HONEST AND GOD FEARING PERSON INRRESPECTIVE OF
RACE,RELIGION OR CULTURE WHO WILL HELP ME OUT OF MY PREDICAMENTE WITHOUT
BIAS
OR PREJUDICE.
Well to go straight to the point, I am MISS CECILEA KEN 19 years old
from the REPUBLIC OF BENIN and the only surviving child of late
KEN PHILAN who was untill his untimely death the director-general of
housing departments of the ministry of works and housing in the REPUBLIC
OF
BENIN
You see, my father ,my mother and my three (3) younger sisters all died

in a ghastly car accident which collided with a petrol tanker which
ignited a fire immediately the accident occured and they all burnt to
ashes. I am sure you may have heard about it because the news was all over

the place, infact across the entire continent as many media houses
carried the news.
As a matter of fact,this great tragedy happened on their way to visit
me on our visiting day in my boarding school where i was about
completing my final year in the high school before i was thrown out of school

last year due to my inability to pay my school fees and to buy some
important text books since my father died along side with my entire family.

Since then life has been very difficult and cumbersome for me to the
extend it got to a point that i wanted to comit suicide.
But just four days ago as God may have it, a SECURITY AND FINANCE HOUSE

based in SENEGAL called our house asking for my late father to ask his
foreign partner to come forward for the claim of the over-due family
value deposite which he my late father deposited with them( THE SECURITIES

AND FINANCE HOUSE).
But in the actual sense my late father has no foreign partner because i

could remember him telling me then one day in our living room as his
FIRST DAUGHTER that he deposited a huge sum of money with a security and

finance house IN SENEGAL.He deposited $11.000.000.00 (ELEVEN MILLION
USD) but the security company did not know the content of the box,my
father deposited it as a family treasure.
Now I am saddled with the problems of getting a sincere, honest,
trustworthy and God fearing person who will earnestly help me by standing
as
my late father's partner and claim these funds on my behalf as the sole

beneficiary and will not cheat me or sit on the funds after claiming it

but rather will invest it properly for me with his expertise in his
country thereafter i will come over to meet you to have a new life. Please

should you have a soft and kind heart to help me claim these funds on
my behalf,do not hesitate to get back to me AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE with

this my e-mail address (cecilea_ken@yahoo.co.uk)
<mailto:cecilea_ken@yahoo.co.uk) so that i can forward your particulars
to
the SECURITIES AND FINANCE COMPNAY as my late fathers foreign partner and

then give you their own contact so that you can call to ask them what
to do for the funds to be released to you as my late fathers foreign
partner. I am currently in GHANA in search of my uncle who works with
AIR AFRIQUE, but was told the airline he works for have closed down for

many months now and no one knows his where abouts, i am staying in a
rented room managing the little money with me.
THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU COME FORWARD TO HELP ME
Yours sincerely,
MISS CECILEA_KEN



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