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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: "KEN WILLIAMS" <onebox1@beehive.org>
Reply-To: jameskallons@maktoob.com
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:00:35 +0100
Subject: compensation for all your past efforts


compensation for all your past efforts

My Dear
I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund transferred to
a Swiss Account with the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay who is
an international business man.

Presently I'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the
total sum. Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to
assist me in transferring those funds despite the fact that it failed us
some how.

Now contact my bank account officer
Name: Mr. JAMES KALLONS
Email: jameskallons@maktoob.com

Ask him to send to you the total $2,000 000(Two Million US Dollars) which I
kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist
me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much, so
feel free and get in touch with my bank account officer Mr. James Kallons
and instruct him where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the
joy after all the suffer ness at that time. In the moment, I am very busy
here because of the investment projects which I and the new partner are
having at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your
behalf to receive that money, so get in touch with him and he will send the
amount to you without any delay.
best regards
Mr kEN William

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