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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: "kamara bangali" <kamabangl0024@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 07:56:49 -0500
Subject: FROM KAMARA BANGALI

Dear Friend,

Although we have not met, I got your contact through the Internet and
decided to contact you for assistance. I was a Medical student of the
University of Sierra Leone, West Africa. Early in January 2001, the rebels
in my country struck our township and killed my father in one of their
attacks. My late father, chief Ahmed Kamara, being the chief of the Town
was a prime target.

Unfortunately for me, I was in school when the attack took place. I equally
lost my only sister to the rebels. When I got home for the remains of my
father and the subsequent burial that followed, I discovered a document
indicating that my late father had deposited some $25.5M United States
Dollars (Twenty-Five Million, five hundred thousand US dollars) in a
security company in Accra-Ghana.According to the document.

Upon the discovery of this document, I travelled to Ghana to trace the
deposit house and to make claims for the said money as the only surviving
next of kin to my father.Deliberately, I have decided to keep all my uncles
and Aunts out of the issue as none of them will be happy to know I am in
possession of such money.I have succeeded in making the people at the
deposite house believe that I am the next of Kin and all the documents
related to it are now with me.

I do not know what to do with it but I have decided to contact you to seek
your assistance in helping me to take it out to your country and help me to
come to your country to continue my education and so that you will help me
to get the money invested until such a time that I will be ready to begin to
use it. I am really desperate as I am left alone now in the world. Let me
know what you want as compensation for helping me to solve this my problem.

Most importantly, I seriously appeal that you maintain high level of secrecy
and confidentiality in the whole thing.

You can contact me through this email address:
kamarabangali@hotmail.com
kamarabangali65@yahoo.es

Yours Sincerely
Kamara Bangali .

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