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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: Kamali Faki Adams <diabloregion@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 03:01:35 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re:In respect to your uncleared question.


Dear Mr.Schaefgen,
Sir,this is not a mysteries of life but rather the story of my life and what will happen to my feature .i will explain to you in details so that you will be clear of those issues you were not cleared of regarding my first email to you.
At a point in time when my late father notice the government was acusing him of financing the movement of democracy in the country,he went to Ghana and have the funds been withdrawn and deposited it in a security company affiliated to the bank where he first deposited the funds as a family precious items without the knowledge of the officials of the security company knowning there if funds in the consignment boxes with which the funds where deposited.my name was made the next of kin so that in due time,at the abscence of the depositor whom is my late husband,my son can chose a foreign beneficiary whom will contact the security company for the retrival of our consignment boxes (2) to his/her country so that we could be able to go over to the beneficiary country and start a new life.
Its not just that you where pick to assist us in this,but i will rather say that its the Lords doing that we where able to have someone like you as we search through the internet for email addresses which will luckly send you an email and you responded with kind hearted.at the reply of your email,i will furnish you with the details of the security company holding our consignment boxes which is in Ghana so that you can contact the security on how you can assist us as a foreign beneficiary to retrive our consignment boxes to you there after we will come over to your country so that we can start a better life there.
20% will be given to you for your assistance and 5% for any exspence that will occure at the time of this transaction.the serial codes of the consignment boxes will be given to you when the consignment boxes has been delivered to you by the security company which will enable you to open our consignment boxes and then take out the 5% which you must have spent during the transaction and we will as for you to send us some amount of money to enable us come over to your country but before then,you will have to open an account which you will deposit the rest part of the money into.when i come over to your country,we will all sit down together and have a share of the funds and you will have your 20%.so if there is anything more to this you will like to ask,please feel free to ask as we await your quick responds.
The security company is not aware of the funds in the consignment boxes so when contacting the company for retrival of the consignment boxes,you dont have to tell them of the funds in the boxes so that they dont raise an eye brow towards our funds.details of the security company will be made known to you so that you can contact the director for the retrival of our consignment boxes to you as our foreign beneficiary.

Thanks,
Adams Kamali.



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