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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: "Kelvin cox" <cox1012@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kelvin.cox101@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:14:20 +0100
Subject: Good Day

From Kelvin Cox

I have the courage to look for a reliable and honest person who will be
capable for this important business transaction, believing that you will
never let me down either now or in future. The owner of this account was a
manager of petrol chemical service here in London,a chemical engineer by
profession and he died since 2002. The account has no other beneficiary and
my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know
anything about this account and the amount involved is Ten million, five
hundred thousand pounds sterling (10,500,000.00 POUNDS).

I want to transfer this money into a safe account, but i don't know any
person which i will do this with, i know that this message will come to you
as a surprise as we don't know our self before, but be sure that it is real
and a genuine business.

I am contacting you for two reasons, Firstly because you bear the same last
name which makes this claim possible and secondly with my involvement as a
staff of the bank, this process will be much easy with me here to guide you.
I am believe in that you will never let me down in this transaction.

Hope to hear from you soon after which futher information will be given to
you on how best to commence this process.
conviniently get back to me

Regards,

Kelvin Cox

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