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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: "kamara.raphael Gazeta.pl" <kamara.raphael@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: kamara.raph1@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:29:41 +0200
Subject: Hello my dear


Dearest one,

Compliments and God bless you, Kindly accept my apology for sending my mail
to you. It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration,since I
cannot be able to see you face to face at first. I am Raphael Kamara, the
only son of late Chief Vincent Kamara,from Sierra Leone. My
sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence to rely on you.

I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance
to transfer our($4,800,000)U.S dollars deposited in the custody of a bank
here in Abidjan to your private account pending our arival to your country.
Source of the money. My late father,chief Vincent Kamara, a
native of mende district in the Northern province of Sierra Leone, was the
general Manager of Sierra Leone mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.)

According to my father, This money was the income accrued from mining
co-operation over draft and minor sales Before the peak of the civil war
between the rebels forces of major Paul Koromah and the combined forces of
ecomog peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country, following
the forceful removal from power of the Civilian Elected President Ahmed
Tejan Kabbah by the rebels. My father had already made arrangement for his
family, my mother my little sister and myself to be evacuated to
Abidjan,Cote d'Ivoire with our personal effects.

During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looting of
public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the sierra Leone
mining coop was one of the targets looted and My father including other top
Government functionaries were attacked and killed by the rebels
because of his relationship with the civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan
Kabbah.

As a result of my father's death, and with the news of my uncles involvement
in air crash, dashed our hope of survival. The untimely deaths caused my
mothers heart failure and other related complications of which she later
died in the hospital After we must have spent a lot of money on
her.

Now my younger sister and myself are alone in this strange country suffering
without any care or help. Without any relation, we are now like refugee
sandorphans, Our only hope now is in this fund which our father deposited in
the BANK.,I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways.-

To assist me transfer this money out of this country, also make a good
arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your
country,secure a college for my little sister and my self in your country to
further our education which we stoped during the war.And to make arrangement
for our travel with you to your country after you have transferred this
fund.

Most importantly, we will like you to keep this transaction very
confidencial and promise us that, you will not sit on the money when it is
transferred into your account.I beg you to concede 15 % of this money to you
for your efforts assistance.
Best regards.
Raphael Kamara.

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