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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "jon kevlin" <jon@joplin.com>
Reply-To: jon.kevlin@email.ro
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:31:31 -0600 (CST)
Subject: FORM:MR. JON KEVLIN




Hello,
Re: collection of fund ($USD152, 000,000.00) under special
arrangement. Pardon me if I have offended you by contacting you
for such a big transaction through an ordinary letter which makes
it suspicious considering the type of fraud proposals moving
around the world today. However, I was advised to explain this
transaction to you on face to face meeting. I could not do this
because of the situation in the world today not being sure of
your reaction.

I am Mr. Jon Kelvin, a consultant and broker from Kingston
Jamaica. I was hired by a Japanese business man to broker an
investment deal between himself and oil company in Venezuela. This
deal was executed in January 1997 and matured for termination in
2001. On maturity, the Japanese businessman and the oil firm
decided to terminate the investment in cash to avoid payment of
investment tax which amounted to several millions of U.S dollars
to the America internal revenue service (IRS). A special
arrangement was made between a top Japanese banker working with
Japanese bank in New York,the oil company and the businessman to
terminate the investment in cash payment under a
fictitious name with an arrangement to change it latter with a
power of attorney which they prepared and handed over to the
top banker. I was directly involved, well paid and mandated to
organize and carry out
the deal. All the cash was withdrawn in august 2001 and
transported to Europe by direct bank vault to vault delivering to
a private diplomatic storage in Europe for safe keeping pending
the collection. The real content of the boxes were not declared
to the storage as it was delivered as personal family treasure
and diamonds. The code for the storage, secret codes for the
opening of the boxes and its keys were all handed over to
me.Mr. Takashi the New York business man was planning to go to
Europe by mid of November 2001 with me for the
collection when the unexpectedn happened in September 11th attack
on the twin tower which claim his life and that of the top
banker.

This left me devastated and confused as I have not yet handed
over the deposit details to the owner and the power of attorney
prepared fore the change which was signed was still with the
banker in his office which was also lost It was agreed with the
storage that the consignment would be collect on or before 12
months from the date of delivery. Since due date the diplomatic
storage manager has been calling me to bring or tell the owner
to come over for collection. My friend,
since then I have been looking for any reliable person to
collect these
consignment under special and well negotiated arrangement until I
got your email contact.

All the needed secret code and identification and collection are
all With me.

Be rest assured that this transaction has been well organized,
100% Safe,legal, risk free and should be kept very confidential.

Please, contact me for the way forward in this transaction. If
you think we can do this together in trust.
Email:jon.kevlin@email.ro

Reach me with your personal data as follows.
1. Your phone aand fax numbers.
2. Your physical address both corperate and
residential
3. Age, sex and marital staatus.
4. Position and name of office.
Expecting to hear from you soon.
Regards,
Jon Kelvin.

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