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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: "Kwashi Nabila" <kwashinabila52@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kwashnabila02@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:38:15 +0000
Subject: From Barrister Kwashi Nabila

Compliments to you.
I am Barrister Kwashi Nabila Esq {Propert and Inherantance Lawyer}. I
know you dont know me and i dont know much about you,but i will be
very please if this transaction will make us know each other as we both
are going to benefit from helping the Dako Family here in Ghana at the
moment, I am a solicitor, for 22yrs old boy Peter Dako, he is the son
of late Anthony Dako,a diamond dealer and Farmer in Sierra Leone,who
was killed by the Sierra Leonia Goverment due to Crisis that erupted in
thier country, before his death he has secretly deposited two
consignments with a Security Company here in Accra,Ghana and have let
it known to his first Son Peter only, as at the time of deposit.
At the moment my client Peter Dako and his only surviving family, which
are his mother and sister are here in Ghana, at the Budumburam Refugee
Camp. Infact their situation is very bad in the Camp, and they
are having $25.5Million in one of the boxes and the other contains
diamonds,but the late father deposited it as family valuable and that
was the information he told Peter as at the time of deposit, not until
about One year after his death that he found out in a secret diary the
true contents and the documents showing the deposit of the consignments
in the Security Company. Like he narrated to me,many people have tried
to swindle them to get the Consigments out for themselves, but failed.
At the end of the day, he was linked up to me to help him.That is why i
have contacted to you to come to the aid of the survives of the Dako
family, to help get consignment out the security company.
I will instruct you on how to go,for you to get things done, but i
must tell you, that consignment is not safe, to be openned here in
Ghana, so i will want it to transfer out of Africa, so that the
Government here in Ghana or any Africa Countries will not seize the
funds and the diamonds,i want them to be transfered to you,all
neccessary arrangements will be made for you to get this consignment
safely shipped to you in your country,so that the funds will be
invested in a profitatble business in your country,for the family and
get them a better life in your country, i will write you more, but
first i want to you to know that you will be rewarded with 20% of the
entire contents and 5% of the entire cash will be set aside to upset
any expenses made to get the consignments released from the Security
Company and shipped to your country, or Europe, to where you think the
funds can be wisely invested.I am not left out,i have been spending
for the family too, so i will be giving 10% of the entire funds
excluding the diamonds which i will not get anything from, only cash,
but you will be reward with 20% of both.
 
Please dont worry wether you are in your town or not, you can be
contacting me on phone and at the same time write me,i will make sure
everything is done under legal grounds with out any breach of our local
laws and any international laws.If it is neccessary for you to come i
will let you know ASAP.
 
Please feel free to write me as soon as posible to my private email,
kwashnabila02@yahoo.co.uk, hope to hear from you soon.
 
Regards,
 
Barrister Kwashi Nabila


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