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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: "Abedi Lamptey" <abekofilam@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:25:13 +0000
Subject: You can trust me

Dear Amarjit,

I am still waiting for the response of the message below i sent to you days
back, I hope you are well?
........................................................................................................................................


I appreciate your co-operation response to this transaction, my heart is so
overwhelmed in appreciating your response even though you never believed me,
but I want you to know it that you will be in control of the whole
transaction. This money will be in your care as you come here to pick or you
demand it to be transfered in to your account.

The good Lord that directed me to contact you will surelly be with us and
lead us through. I knew that due the rate of internet hustlers this days, it
would be very had for you to believe me, but I assured you that you will
never regret assist me & my family.

My dear my late Father left this US$18,700,000.00 (Eighteen million seven
hundred thousand united states dollars) for me, my junior one and our Mum
and died. I decided to contact you due to my spirit said I should, I am a
believer and my spirit never fail me.

My name is Mr. Abedi Koffi Mbani for real, you have nothing to be sceptical
or afraid of any kind as I have all that it takes to prove my claims, all
necessary documents for an easy claim of this US$18,700,000 are with my
father's attorney that assisted me deposit this fund in a secured security
company here, you will get them on request without any stress. My duty is
to supply you with all the information by Email which is more safe for me as
at now.

The good thing about it is that the money is packed in a trunk boxes and
deposited as precious jewelleries and family valuables. Non of the security
company's officials is aware of the real contents of the boxes as a large
amount was paid to the security company at the time of deposit to ensure
that the consignment is kept safe and sealed.

Your role is going to be very vital because I will want this consignments to
leave here (South Africa) with a different name (yours in particular).
Actually no one is following up this money but as you may know, African's
are sometimes jealous but with you as a foreigner, no one will have time to
look at you. In other words, I will want to get the total ownership of this
consignment changed to your name. This will be the first stage towards
retrieving the consignment.

As soon as that is done, I will want you to come down so that the
consignment will
be retrieved and get an accounts opened in different banks here for onward
transfer to your place of choice, or you will give directives to the
security company on how you want the consignment to be delivered to you
right there in your country.

I know that this might be ambiguous but I want you to see this as easy thing
to do because the most important thing is getting out the consignments from
the security company.

One good thing that was done when the consignment was deposited was that the
beneficiary of the consignment was stated as a foreign partner, so you will
act as the foreign partner.
All the necessary documents relating to the deposit are available and will
be sent to you on request.

Please do understand that this transaction is highly confidential and I will
not want any other person apart from those involved to know about this. You
know that it will not be fair for us making this transaction public.

On conclusion we share 60 - 40. I will be taken the 60% while the 40% will
be for you after the transaction. At the succesful conclusion of the deal,
you'll arrange for me and my family to come over to your country. I assure
you that this is 100% risk free.

Therefore, get back back to me or call me so that I will give you in
contacts of my father's attorney and you will contact him for verifications.

Abedi
( +27 791001939 )

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