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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: LAMI KALLON <lami_kallon.2000@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: lami_kallon@gazeta.pl
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 23:07:26 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Regards


Hello,

Compliments of the day.Forgive my indignation if this message comes to
you as a surprise and may offend your personality for contacting
you without your prior consent and writing through this unofficial channel.

My name is Lami kallon,manager of the financial institution in west
african region.I am a Ghanaian married with four kids.I am writing
to solicit for your assistance in the transfer of $4,550.000.00 million U.S
dollars only,equivalent to 2.5 million pounds.I got your contact
during my search for a reliable,honest and a trust worthy person to entrust
this huge transfer project with.

This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the manager
made as profit during the 2005 financial year. I have already
submitted annual report for that year to my head office here in Accra as I
have watched with keen interest as they will never know of this
excess. I have since, placed this amount of $4,550.000.00 million U.S
dollars on an Escrow Coded account without a beneficiary (anonymous)
to avoid trace. As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to
this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to
receive this money into your bank account on my behalf.

Could you be kind enough to render your services in this regard, I intend
to part 30% of this fund to you.I do need to stress that there are
practically no risk involved in this. It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer.
All I need from you is to stand as the original depositor of this
fund so that the fund can be transferred to your account.

If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response to my
private email lami_kallon@gazeta.pl

Regards
Lami kallon



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