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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: Moreen Kabba <mkabbap1980@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:01:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: My Dear Pastor,


Heartiest greeting from Princess, from Princess Moreen Kabba.
PLEASE REPLY ME WITH THIS MY EMAIL ADDRESS: mkabbap1980@yahoo.com

My Dear One,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I got your address and name though this web I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trustworthy person that I can do business with and by the recommendation, I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.

I am Princess Moreen Kabba the only daughter of late Chief and Mrs Anthony Kabba. My father was former Director of Finance for the Sierra Leone Diamond, Gold and Mining Corporation in Freetown, the economic capital of Sierra Leone. My father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. While my mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special.

Before his death on October 2004 in a private hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, he secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has the sum of nine million United States dollars ($9,000,000) left in fixed/suspense account in one of the prime bank in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote d’Ivoire, that he used my name as his only daughter for the next of kin in depositing of the fund. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates. That in case he die I should move out of the country down to Cote d’Ivoire where he made the deposit to seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose after my education such as real estate management or hotel management. I am living in Cote d’Ivoire since 3 months now.

Dear, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways: to provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to, to serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 22 years and to make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit in your country while you will take care of investing this money.

Moreover dear, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas. Furthermore, you indicate your options towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within seven (7) days you signify interest to assist me.
Anticipating to hear from you soon.

Thanks and regards,
Princess Moreen Kabba


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