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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: suyong233@yahoo.com
Reply-To: kenclark505@k.ro
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 05 15:38:28 EST
Subject: Partnership





Dear Friend,

The purpose of this letter is to briefly introduce
myself. My name is Mr Kenn Clark,I work in executive capacity with CARGO FIELD SECURITIES AND TRUST (ltd) Mauritius. I joined the services of this company in 1983. I decided to contact you believing that you will become my Business Partner in acquiring an investment of $5.5M placed under our management more than seven (7) years ago.

I have worked with this company for over 20 years, within this period of time I watched with meticulous precision on how government functionaries move huge sums of money with the aid of their foreign partners abroad, using our security company.

These people have at one time or the other deposited consignments with us and their foreign partners, relatives and Next of Kin are Claiming most of these consignment and a lot more are laying here unclaimed for as much as 7 years, as no available information to anybody except the depositors, and most of them died intestate. Cargo Field Securities instituted an investigations to determine who should have right to claim the estate. This investigation has been unfruitful. Since the inception of the year 2004,CARGO FIELD SECURITIES AND TRUST (ltd) Management changed the procedure of claiming of consignments. Once you are able to produce all the information as contained in the file of the company as regard the consignment, it will be released to you upon demand.

From our records, more than 70 consignments belonging to these people has been claimed in the past six months.Based on the failure of this investigation I decided to seek a foreign contact who will therefore play the role of a next of kin to the deceased and this is why I am seeking your co-operation and assistance to help execute this pending deal which has been unclaimed for so long as I know no one will ever come forward to claim it because the deceased left no next of kin. The amount in question is very small compared to what my office has sent overseas for this people through our overseas correspondent security company. I will provide all the documents needed for this purpose as I was the account officer in-charge of this particular transaction.

For the release of the consignment, Our Overseas correspondent will demand for some documents and the security code of the consignment, you will call on me to supply you with every detailed Information as regard the consignment. As soon as they have confirmed it to be correct, the company will invite you for the collection, or you may insist that the consignment be delivered to you instead.

I hope to hear from you to enable me provide you with the complete picture of this deal.

Mr Kenn Clark.


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