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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: "Linda Kleef" <paralysedkleef@katamail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: paralysedkleef@australiamail.com
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:00:59 +0100
Subject: Linda Kleef

From Ms Linda Kleef
+447979523371


Good Day,
I am Mrs Linda Kleef from Democratic Republic of Congo. I was the Personal Financial Security Officer in charge of President Kabila's Security vault.During the death of President Kabila, there was a lot of
screening amoung us the Presidential guard to know how his death occurred. This put most of us from the Northern part of the country under serious questioning on how the coup came about. The suspicion of the Northern part of my country came to down on us and immediately I hard a second thought on Fund Movement,actually, we from the North planed to topple him, this is due to the death of our own brother the
former President MOBUTU SESESEKO who died in exile when KABILA took over power. Immediately after his interception, I hard to arrange with a private owned security services in Amsterdam by diplomatic
arrangement and move out everything realized from the sales of DIAMOND we sold to his private buyers.. its over fews years now and am willing to go for a claim, but for now i am an asylum seeker in england and can not make this claims my self even if it was safe kept by me. Am Paralysed Now.

I am conctacting you today to share something very close to my heart which should be taken for real . my number is above were i could be reached. I can't explain in great details all i need to say now about this until i read from you. i am sharing this with you for one reason , I WAS CRIPPLED BY STROKE WHICH LEFT HALF PART OF MY BODY PARALYSED AND ALSO I HAD UNDERGONE EXTENSIVE EYE SURGERY WHICH HAS RESULTED INTO POOR VISION ITS VERY ugent i give out the codes and infromations needed to someone who can act as my next of kin and a brother or sister to me. to help me make futher claims. if you can't get me on the phone please email me on ( paralysedkleef ) @ maybe (yahoo.com or australiamail.com) . I seek someone who is just willing to take this step of knowing me better. However if i have annoyed you by sending you this email. please forgive me and delete this email. i only seek a very happy person to be a friend to me who i can share this things with and i will be happy i
f you would be the one.

Since then I have had to take ASYLUM in ENGLAND with my (3) three Children.
Best regards.
Mrs Kleef.



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