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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: J k <kamala_son@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:09:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Waiting to hear from you


Dear VICTIMNAME

Thanks for your mail,

So you receive this type of offered and you refuse to call me in other to verify from the person who contact you, you take this offer as funny thing, do you? Time is coming for you to be surprise concerning this offer given to you. I understand your point, and what you are saying is truth, there is many lairs in this world but what I want to tell you is, you must see everything on your eyes before anything, as time going own, you will find out that, in this world, there is good people on earth and bad people. First visit our country website.

But if I am you, what I should do is to give you a call because the deal is what will make you to be a millionaire after the transaction is over and those involve we be a millionaire too like the banker who is going to transfer this money to your account.

Well, I don’t have too much things to say, all I want to said is you are a lucky person and God knows why he direct me to you. Please listen very carefully and follow my instruction, I need a promising letter state that this money will be saved in your country, also a letter showing that after this money transfer to your country you will never betrayed me likewise you we write a promising letter concerning the life of my family at your hand when we come over to your country that our life will be saved in your hand. You have to declare yourself that immediately this transaction start, you will never disappoint me in your life until the transaction is over.

I am talking a huge amount of money, the life of my family depend on this money that is why I must handle this transaction carefully, my friend you will drop a note that you will never involve another party in this transaction to avoid hijack this money or to plan evil against this money when the money transfer to your account.

For your information, all the arrangement has been made put in other how the transaction is going to take place without any problem because the banker who is going to transfer this money is now ready to take action because I has promise him 10% of the total money after the money transferred to your account in oversea. He has agree to secure all the necessary government clearance documents which the government will need to move the fund, he said that when the transaction start, it we only take him 36 hours the money to be in your account but we must follow his instruction.

I have already show him all the documents concerning this money that is why he come out fully himself to transfer the money to oversea, he is one of the bank director’s here in South Africa, If you know that we can do this deal and became one family in future, never in your life think how to betrayed me later or site on top of the money when the money transfer to your account, and please I am pleading to you in the name of God, keep this transaction confidentially for security reason until you find out that the money is in your country’s bank account, I said all this because people is greedy and envy to there human progress.

Before we can proceed, kindly send me your private phone and fax number for easy communication and inflow of documents when it needed, then you have to call me now.

Please this is my private email address; my families have access in the other one, so you can contact me for this mail address because this one is my private mail address: for security reason and safety of this transaction. As soon as I receive the promising letter, then I will state you how the transaction is going to take place according to the banker, he has already work underground way towards this transaction, he said that the money cannot be transferred all immediately, he told my pastor that the money will transfer at list twice to your account. Now before I can send you the procedure, send this promising letter first. Sign it under and attach it in my mailbox with your company letterhead. I am very happy to receive your passport copy.

Thanks,

Waiting to hear from you urgently, once again thinks for your concern towards my family problem.

Jacob Kamala
For the family


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