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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: =?big5?q?kelly=20mustapha?= <mustaphakelly111@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: mustaphakelly27@yahoo.ca
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:56:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: REQUEST FOR BUSINESS


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Attn: The President


My name is Mr. Mustapha Kelly .


I hail from No. 20 refinery

Road.Eleme oil state-Nigeria,

41 years, married with three children. I am the Diretor of

Global

Security & Finance Services Limited, Nigeria. I got the

information

concerning

you from the Internet and after due consideration, I

decided to contact

you believing that by the Grace of God, that you will not

disappoint me

over this deal. I have been working with this company for

over fifteen

years.

Within this period, I have watched with meticulous

precision how

African Heads of State and Government functionaries have

been using

Global

Security & Finance Ltd to move sums of money USD, Pounds

Sterling,

French

Francs (cash) to their foreign partners. They bring in

these

consignments of cash and secretly declare the contents as

jewelries,

gold,

diamonds, precious stones, family treasures, and documents

etc. Mobutu

Sese

Seko of Zaire (dead), Gen. Sanni Abacha of Nigeria (dead),

Fode Sank

oy

of Sierra Leone, Babangida of Nigeria, Felix Houphet Boigny

of Cote

d"Ivoire (dead), Kanan Bedie of Cote d"Ivoire (Abidjan)

etc.

All these people have many consignments deposited with my

office. Their

foreign partners, friends and relatives are claiming most

of these

consignments. A lot of them are lying here unclaimed for as

much as

eight

years. Nobody will ever come for them because in most

cases, the

Certificate of Deposit are never available to anybody

except the

depositors

or

me since most of them are dead. I have through the

instrumentality of

Global Security & Finance re-deposited all these

unclaimed and overstayed consignment into the Vault

Facility of a

reputable

Security Company in Europe. Since the inception of the year

2000, our

company's management has changed the procedure of claims of

consignment,

as soon as you are able to produce the secret information

as contained

in the secret file of any consignment, it will be released

to you upon

demand. I have finalized every arrangement for you to claim

consignment

No. 1401, 1402 containing $35.7 Million.

I will supply you with all the information and documents

that will

facilitate your easy claim of the consignment. Upon your

positive reply

of

this letter, I will furnish you with further details and

information

regarding the modus operandi for the execution of the

transaction. This

business is risk free as I have taken necessary preventive

measures.

(The mode of sharing will be 50-50), you can reach me by

email and I

will

direct you on what to do and also l like like you to

furnish me with

your full name and your confidential phone and fax

number(s).

Upon your positive consideration and reply of this letter I

shall give

you

a confidential telephone number with which we can discuss

the execution

of the business. Expedite. mustaphakelly27@yahoo.ca


Yours faithfully,

Mustapha Kelly.




- kelly mustapha


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