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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: "KENNETH BOLEN" <k.bolen1@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:49:20 -1200
Subject: MR. KENNETH BOLEN (REPLY)

Attention:

I am a staff of African Development Bank. I am writing
following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of imense
benefit to both of us. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of $26.5650million Dollars (Twenty six million
five hundred thousand six hundred and fifty Dollars) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late
Mr. Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his
life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which
crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only
daughter.
You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list

Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and
claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody
applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being
his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash
leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for
the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and
two other officials in this department now decided to make
business with you and release the money to you as the next
of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we
don't want this money to go back into Government treasury as
unclaimed bill. The banking law and guidelines here
stipulates that such money remained after six years the
money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed
funds.

We agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner, while the balance will be for me and my colleagues.
I will visit your country for the disbursement according to
the percentages indicated above once this money gets into
your account. Please be honest to me and my colleagues trust
is our watchword in this transaction. Note this transaction
is confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive this
mail. please do your very best to get in touch with our
(FOREIGN PAYMENT DIRECTOR) DR.JOHNSON ALIYUH email at:
dr_johnsonaliyuh@yahoo.co.uk

Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth
release of these funds has been finalised. Our Foreign
Payment Director, Dr. Johnson Aliyuh will give you specific
instruction on what to do. Please in your response include
your telephone number for easy communication between us.

Best Regards!
MR. KENNETH BOLEN.




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