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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: kenserena@luckymail.com
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:02:13 +0900 (JST)
Subject: We need your trusteeship

Ken & Serena Quattara
Rue d canal zone 4,
Marcory ・瘢雹Abidjan
kenserena@luckymail.com
Good day,

I am Ken Quattara and my sister Serena Quattara residing in Abidjan-Cote d碁voire with my sister, my father was one of the top officer with the rebel in the Northern part of the country, and he was killed during the war.
Since after the political problem is over, we are maintaining a low profile until we are issued with a Government attestation and passport, for now we are not permitted to travel out of our zone or operate an account or engage in any form of gainful employment until we received our attestation.

It is with much pleasure that we are contacting you because of the confidentiality involved in this transaction, our father deposited a sealed box in a Security Company containing US$9,000,000 US dollars but declared as antiquity and personal effect to the management of Security & finance
company, now we are asking for your assistance to help us in claiming the sealed box from the company by fronting you as the co-beneficiary of this sealed box.
We are ready to give 30% of the total fund to you for your assistance.

We will be most pleased if you will get back to us soonest with this email kenserena@luckymail.com, so that we will provide in Confidence and all transparency with all details.

God bless you and have a nice day.

Ken & Serena Quattara.




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