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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: "MR JOHN KENNEDY" <mrj.keeen.edy@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrj2kennedy008@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 13:49:44 +0200
Subject: My Dear Good Friend..


FROM THE DESK OF: MR JOHN KENNEDY ,
PRIME TRUST BOND COMPANY, LONDON.
UNITED KINGDOM
mrj2kennedy008@yahoo.fr

My Dear Good Friend,

I Am John Kennedy,The Auditor General Prime Trust Bond Company London. There
is this immigrant (Michael Gambone) who was a gas consultant here in UK, who
happens to be one of our very good clients.
He died with his wife (Deborah Gambone) on board the Swiss Air Flight 111
which crashed into the Pacific off of British Columbia on September 2nd
1999. The news of this crash was on the CNN and other world news when the
incidence happened.

when this accident occured, we tried to notified the relatives but
unfortunately to no avail. Before his death, he was having a closing balance
of $10.5Million (Ten million five hundred thousand dollars only) in our
company with account number: 01514770727 & deposit code no:ptbaxbsl. Upon
maturity,a routine notification was forwarded to his address but we got no
reply. here include is the wedsites of the aircrash for your perusal.

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/

Further when All attempts to trace his next of kin failed, and on doing more
investigation,it was discovered that (Mr. Michael Gambone) did not declare
any next of kin or relation in all his official documents, including his
bank deposit paperwork in my bank making it very difficult for the funds to
be claimed by any one.

Finally,According to the British Law, the money will be taken to the
ownership of the British Government since nobody applies to claim the fund.
To avoid this money being sent to the British Treasury as unclaimed funds,I
have decided to contact you so that the said fund would be released in your
name as the next of kin and paid into your account and on completion of the
transfer, we will share the money 60/40. If you are willing to be a part of
this fortune transaction, I oblige you to send the following details below:

Full Name..............
Occupation................
Nationality.................
Mobile/phone number...........
Fax......
Age....
Sex.....

With these available details I'll file an application in your name,after
which I'll send you an official letter of claim to the bank and other
agencies concerned for the immediate release of the funds to you as the
legitimate inheritor who has shown up to claim his relation's wealth.

Endeavour to contact me immediately through my private and confidential
Email Address as indicated here below:
EMAIL: mrj2kennedy008@yahoo.fr

Yours Faithfully,
Mr John Kennedy.
Auditor General
Prime Trust Bond Company

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