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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: "Kingsley Ahmed" <kc.ahmad@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: kc.ahmad@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 09:53:09 +0100
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL


Greetings! I am Kingsley Ahmed the son of late Ben Salim Ahmed from Sudan
residing in London. Please i contact you in good faith and clean heart so i
want you to let me trust you to be able to handle this deal for me and on my
behalf.

I have an inherited US$5,800,000.00 plus 150 Kilos of Alluvial Gold Dust
deposited with the International Commercial Bank Ltd in Accra - Ghana by my
late father and I need your assistance to claim it from the bank in Ghana
and have it transferred to your bank account in your country. I called the
bank managing director in Ghana inquiring of my inherited funds and gold and
they told me that I cannot lay claims to it direct and by myself as what my
late father indicated in the deposit document was his foreign partner as
next of kin and beneficiary to the funds and gold with them so I want you to
stand as my late father's foreign partner so I contacted you to act as my
late father's foreign partner in helping me get the money and gold
transferred into your account. I will offer you 20% of the total amount and
10 kilos of the gold and will also need your professional advice in
investing my own part of the funds and gold in a good business that will
yield good income for me in the near future.

You can call me on my phone: +447024028862 and get back to me by email:
kc.ahmad@gmail.com

Name: Kingsley Ahmed.
Tel: +447024028862 or 07024023931
Email: kc.ahmad@gmail.com

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