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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: JAMES KAME <james_kame109@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <james_kame4@yahoo.it>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:18:15 +0000
Subject: FROM JAMES & JOSEPHINE.



FROM JAMES & JOSEPHINE. Attn Dear, We really know you will surprise to read from us. I am Mr. James Kame the only Son of Late LT-COL George Kame Retired.

I on behalf of my sister Josephine we wish to solicit for your assistance to Transfer into your Bank account the sum of (5.2)million united states of American dollars which our late father deposited in a Bank here in Abidjan Cote D'ivoire. Our father until his death on 5th May 2007 was a Retired army LT-CL encharge of signals in our country Cote D'ivoire Army and later a Cocoa/coffe farmer in Bouake Cote D'ivore After retiring from the service.
Our father upon retirement from the army he enter into his agric farm estates where he invested all his money when he was in service.
Our Father was one of the 144 passengers that lost their livies in the kanya Airlines boeing 737 vOL KQ507 crash in douala on 5th may 2007 at exactly 005 AM. This money was money he made from his cocoa/coffe estates produce farms. Our father before his untimely death deposited this money using me his only son as the beneficiary of the fund,But on the Agreement which our late father made with the Bank that in case of his absence as a result of death that the money money will only be transfer to his foreign business partners Bank account for investment,our late father foreign partner Name was not mention in the agreement of which we holding a copy here with us. So this is where we want you to come and assume as our late father foreign business partner to enable the Bank to transfer the money out of this country to your country where there is Political/Economic stability. All we need from you is to funish us with your. (1)FULL NAME (2)FULL ADDRESS YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS. (3)BANK ACCOUNT NAME (4)BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER (5)BANK ACCOUNT SWIFT CODE (6)BANK ADDRESS (7)BANK TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS. Send these information to so that we can forward it to the Bank to enable them commence with the transferring of the money into your Account. I And my sister have resolves to give 10 percent of the total mount and will set a side 5 percent of the total amount,for any expenses you may in cure during this transaction. After you might have read this mail and feel like helping us write us and declare your interest in this transaction. We are waiting to hear from you soon. Thanks and God bless you. Best Regards. James and Sister Josephine.

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