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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: williams kanga <willykanga2005@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:21:22 +0100 (BST)
Subject: The process of the transaction.


Dear Mr. VICTIMNAME,
Harrow, London.

First, I wish to thank you for your response to my mail. I already know that it will be a great suprise for you to receive such letter from someone strange to you but same time, I am not so much suprise because to know personally start just in a day either words of mouth, in writing or in face to face, they are all the same provided the initial trust is there.

From the content of your mail, I could see that you have a project which you are doing but it seem as there is too much delay from the people that you are dealing with. In my own case, it is totally defferent because before my arrival to South Africa, I have already contacted our family lawyer in South Africa about my coming but I did not dislose this transaction to him fully for reason best known to me. So what I trying to say is that with the involvement of the lawyer both this transaction and that one you are doing is assured. He is well knwon throughout South Africa for his good work and from the type of family that he came from, so I am giving you 100% assurance that he will deliver for us.

As per my own transaction, it is a confirmed business which you cannot delay to visit here because I do not want to deal with someone that does not trust me and my family, you have to come here for the reason that I am a refugee, you have to stand for my family both in the bank and before the security company. Your coming is not just for you to believe that the transaction is real because it is 100% real but for you to even see and know the people that you are dealing with. If it were possible for me nor any member of my family to visit your country, we would have done so but because we do not have any valid traveling documents, this cannot be possible for now otherwise I would meet with you in person.

Therefore, I am giving you a 100% guarrantee that this is real and serious but it need your attention here. I am not asking you for any money to pay the lawyer because the lawyer has been our family lawyer. The lawyer has assured me that your coming here will makes things go smoothly and easier as it will give you the opportunity to meet with the signatory official involve.

As soon as we have agreed, then I will send you the Certificate of Deposit, the recent statement of account from the Security Company and from their, we move direct to change the ownership of the fund to your name since my status as a refugee does not allow to stand for my family in opening the account and other's.

I look forward to hear from you and please in your reply, do not forget to include your contact details.

Thanks and remain bless.

Willy Kanga.


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