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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: "brian kennedy" <kennedybrian@student.com>
Reply-To: kennedybrian22@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:13:09 -0700
Subject: contact Mr Kennedy Brian


Attention please,


I am Mr Kennedy Brian the Director of Delivery/Operations in the MultiTrust
Security company. Our firm is a Security/Finance Company of high repute with
years of outstanding service to the people of Africa, Europe especially top
government officials and military leaders in Africa.I have resolved to
contact you through this medium based on business proposal that will be of
mutual benefit to both of us. I have not discussed this transaction with
anybody because it is of top secret.


To be explicit and straight to the point, some time early in 1999, a
reputable client of ours deposited a consignment in our company's vault for
safe keeping. And since then our client has failed to come forward to claim
his consignment, which has accumulated a considerable amount of money in
demur rage. Consequently, in our bid to contact this client to redeem the
demur rage which his consignment had accumulated we discovered that our
client was the former President of Zaire, who died of illness after he was
dethroned in the same year.The consignment was entrusted into our care.
Before the death of our client, President Mobutu Seseseko, none of his
benefactors has come forward to claim the consignment with us, which means
that none of his relation or aides had any knowledge of this consignment.


Hence out of curiosity I decided to secretly scan the box that our client
deposited in our vault. And to my surprise I discovered that the box, that
was registered as treasures by our client, was packed full with US$100
Bills! The box was stacked full with US$100 Dollar Notes! It actually
contained a considerable amount of money in United State Dollars, amounting
to US$12.4 Million . Since this development I have been nursing plans
secretly. I also found out from inquiries and the foreign media that the
late client siphoned a lot of money from his country while he was in office
as Head of State. It is my conviction that the consignment in our vault was
part of the money our client siphoned and now that he is dead there is no
trace of this money in our care.


I am now soliciting your noble assistance to assist me in Clearing this
money out from my company to your country for immediate investment with your
assistance.I have also decided to offer you 20% of the total amount, for
your assistance. Upon my receipt of your reply confirming your willingness
to assist me of this transaction, I will immediately arrange and transfer
all the right of ownership of this consignment to your name, to facilitate
your easy clearance and transfer of the complete fund to your country for
onward investment.contact email address; kennedybrian22@yahoo.com


Thank you!
Kennedy Brian.
Dir: MultiTrust.

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