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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: pattni57@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:03:12 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=20JOHN=20PATTNI?=

FROM JOHN PATTNI

Dear Friend

Greetings to you,I wish to seek your assistance in a project I will reveal
to you shortly. My name is Mr. John Pattni, the younger brother to Mr. Kamlesh
Pattni of Goldenberg International, Kenya. Republic of Kenya. My brother,

Mr.Kamlesh Pattni was a very close friend and confidant of former President
Daniel Arap Moi of the Republic of Kenya. I want to believe you are very
much aware of what is happening in my country presently. I mean the change
of the Government
in my country, and I want you to know that the main reason of
contacting you is that former President Daniel Arap Moi has secretly confided
in my brother (Mr.Kamlesh Pattni) to take some funds about Fifteen Million
United States Dollar(US$15,000,000.00) abroad to keep in a secret account,
and the fund was deposited in the custody of a private security trust firm
in Europe. I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your
assistance to transfer this cash of Fifteen Million Dollars($15,000.000.00)
now in the custody of a private Security trust firm in Europe, and the money
is in trunk boxes deposited and declared as family valuables by my brother.
And as a matter of fact by brother, Mr.KamleshPattni made them to understand
that the boxes belongs to his foreign partner and not former President Daniel
Arap Moi as they do not want anybody to know about this funds, despite the
fact that the money was taken away from Kenya with the help President Daniel
Arap Moi.My brother cannot travel out of Kenya as the new Government is
gunning for his head and others that did save in the past Government so
I have to be very careful with the way I go about clearing these funds .So
I decided to keep it safely as a secret and couldn't tell anyone in my country
for the safety of my life and that of my family. Though we have neither
seen nor met each other, I know we will be able to establish all the trust
that we need to ensure that the funds is safe with you.

Thus, if you are willing to assist me to move this fund to your account
and your country for safe keeping, you can contact me through my email address
sending your full names and telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss
the modalities and what your share (percentage) for assisting me will be.I
will highly appreciate it if my request is given utmost priority and
consideration. So I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings

1. To assist me claim this boxes from the security trust firm as our beneficiary

2. To transfer this money (USD$15M) in your name to your country

3. To make a good arrangement for joint-business investment on our behalf
in your country and you will be our Adviser/ Manager.


For your assistance, I have agreed that 20% of the total amount will be
for your effort and another 10 % to cover all the expenses that we might
incur during the business transaction, Last,I urge you to keep this transaction
strictly confidential as no one knows about these funds.


Please as you show your willingness, Forward to me your full name, address
and Tel/Fax numbers, to me via my private email address: ( johnpattin@netscape.net)
This is for security reasons as I will only be accessing my private email
earnestly awaiting your response.

Best Regards,

John Pattni


NOTE: FOR MORE INFORMATIONSSEE BELOW

http://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid=5090

http://www.royalafricansociety.org/what_we_do/articles/sundaytimes_08-06

http://www.dur.ac.uk/af-cab.soc/corruption.htm

http://www.kentimes.com/16dec04/nwsstory/opinion.html

http://www.kentimes.com/19oct04/nwsstory/news4.html







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