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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: "fathiakamalla Gazeta.pl" <fathiakamalla@gazeta.pl>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:19:10 +0200
Subject: URGENT FROM YOUR SISTER


*Dear Sir/ma, *
*
I am Mr.Fathia Kamalla of INTERCONTINENTAL SECURITY AND VAULT SARL BENIN. I
am the foreign Affairs director at the institution I wanted to have a very
solid and beautiful business transaction discussion with you.

I am in charge of the deposit made by the late Andreas Schranner,the German
property magnate who died in the German Concorde(AF4590) air crash in year
2000.He has a deposit of $45million USD at the company here in Benin
republic,in which I am in charge of this deposit I wanted to believe within
my self that I am the only person who has the details of the siad deposit in
the company, therefore I solicit your partnership to transfer the
beneficiary of the late client to you as his next of kin.as his family
memeber(wife,daughter,the husband and their 2kids) were involved in the
crash.they all died. View the web site

**http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm*<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm>
*
I wanted to give you my sense of belonging as I have my modes of moving the
fund if you are capable of bearing the beneficiary/next to the late Magnate
that will allow me process the claim and I will immediately present you to
the company as his next of kin/beneficiary.

I have agree within my self to allow you a percentage of 25% while I will
allow you another 5% for any kind of expenses that may or may occur i.e.
Telephone and fax, making it a total of 30% whereby I will have the remain
70% of the fund for onward investment.

I want you to be rest assured that all hand are on desk to complete this
transaction, as I have two modes of getting rid of it:
1)Diplomatique courrier delivery
2)Bank-to-Bank transfer

I will allow you to decide what mode will be best for you .Please get back
as soon as possible for further details.

Thanks

Sincerely yours
MrFATHIA KAMALLA.

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