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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: "carlos kima" <kimacarlos@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: kima_carlosss@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:13:02 +0100
Subject: FROM MR CARLOS KIMA


Good Day,

My name is Kima Carlos, an Executive Director Trident Oil Inc. a
Multi-National oil corporation operating from London-England, UK. I am
seeking your assistance to retreive the sum of Thirty Million Dollars
consisting of two consignment boxes.

This money was acquired from the company and it was accompanied by a
diplomat to the Secure Firm, my reason for this is because I have been
cheated out of my entitlements by the company for too long simply because I
am not a British. The contact details of the diplomat will be given to you
if you indicate your interest to help me.

Each of the boxes contains $15M and for your help I am ready to release
30% to you, for security reasons the consignment was registered to be
CONFIDENTIAL DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS which I will explain to you why. Bear
in mind that the diplomat is not aware of the content of the
consignment, it has been there for the past 1 month where I'm looking for a
reliable partner.

I will be leaving the country immediately the consignment is delivered
to you for my private investment and I have vowed never to step back
into London, England. Please, I need your urgent response before my plans to
leave the company is discovered.

Right now the safest form of correspondence is through my own e-mail
address, please in the interest of confidentiality only reply through
mydirect email address.

Reply along with your personal telephone and fax number where I can
reach you. Please if you are not willing and interested in helping me
kindly delete this email from your computer and pretend you never got it.

Best regards,
Dr Kima Carlos

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