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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: Mark Kwaku <mark_kwaku06@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:33:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Reply.


Att:
Am Mark Kwaku by name,a sudan nationality living here at the bujobura camp(regufee) here in Ghana.am left with my mother in the camp as a result of the war that broke up years ago in Sudan that claim the life of my family which includes my father was actually has a deposited consignment boxes with an insurance security in Amsterdam,Holland.
Due to lack of communication since we get here,we have not been able to correspond greatly in the retrival of our consignment boxes from the security company though am the next of kin but my father once had a friend in the US who was our foreign beneficiary and was suppose to retrive the consignment boxes from the security company but has since died and this became so hard cause due to the agreement my late father had with the company at the time of deposite is that only a foreign beneficiary can retrive these consignment boxes from the company.
The consignment boxes contains $16million usd in cash as the security company is not awear of this in other not to allow the officials to raise an eye brow towards it so it was insured by my late father as family precious items which by no means,you will diclose this with them when contacting the security company over the retrival to you as our foreign beneficiary.
Myself and my mother has agree a percentage of 25% to go for your assistance and every other expences will be taken care of as soon as our consignment boxes arrive to you in your country then we will come over to your country so that we can be able to buy a living house and invest wisely in any profitable business which you will be an eye to us.
I have all document regarding the deposit of our consignment boxes with the security company and as soon as i recieve your responds,i shall forwards the details of the security company in Holland to you so that you will be able to contact the director over the retrival of our consignment boxes to you as our foreign beneficiary as he is the only that will be able to give you a proper direction in retriving our consignment boxes.
Below is the details of my alternative email adrress you can reply to: (mark_kwaku04@yahoo.com)
I will be expecting to hear from you as soon as you recieve this email,may the peace of the lord bless you and your house hood and you will never lack in anything you ask for.Amen.

Regards,
Mark Kwaku for the family.
&
My mother
Evely Kwaku.



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