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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: suyong234@yahoo.com
Reply-To: kennethclark@k.ro
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 05 05:26:49 EST
Subject: Joint Business Proposal



Dear Friend,

The purpose of this letter is to briefly introduce
myself. My name is Mr Kenneth Clark,I work in executive capacity with CARGO
FIELD SECURITIES AND FINANCE (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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