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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: "Hon. Kane Usman ." <hon_kaneusman1@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:49:36 +0000
Subject: CONTACT AWAITING REPLY.

>From the office of
Honorable Ken Usman
Member representing Kwali
Constituency in Platue State
House of Assembly.

ATTN,
.

I am a close confident to Governor Joshua Dariye of
Platue State Nigeria, but due to disturbances,
Intimidations, and harrasments from Mr. President, and
his group fighting to remove me again from the office
as Governor of Platue State, the President and his
group using EF.C.C to tanishe the governor's image,
even the account IN lONDON has been siezed by EFCC. So
the governor ask me as his close person to make a
reasonable contact with you, so that he can negotiate
business with you and make some savings with your
persons.

Please if you are interested, send your contacts.
Telephone and fax number.
Mobile for more details.

Note: that this contact is highly secret for security
purposes.

Thanks.

Hon. Ken Usman.



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