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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: Kathrine Rafael <kathy1@faithserve.com>
Reply-To: ogechi6868@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:48:16 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Greetings.

Greetings.

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. It may surprise you receiving this letter from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us. My name is Kathrine Rafael, the only child of late Mr. and Mrs Rafael. I am 20 yrs of age and held from a country known as Ivory Coast.

My purpose of contacting you is for you to help secure the funds left behind by my late father, to avoid it being confiscated or declared unserviceable by the security trust firm where this fund valued $9,500,000.00(Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand United State of American Dollars) deposited by my late father before his death. The money was WILLED to me as the only child of the family, the money is my inheritance from my late father.

The security trust firm has issued me a notice to contact the new beneficiary or the money will be declared unserviceable and the content declared open, So far all my efforts to get a hold of someone to be my foreign partner has been proved abortive. Hence, I have to contact you. I am actually asking for you to the security trust firm as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late client's fund, so the retrieve of the money will be done by you.

All the legal documentations to back up your claim as my foreign partner I shall provide to you like Deposit certificate and Agreement of Deposit. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us achieve this transaction.

I wish to point out 25% of this money to be for you as you compensation, while the remaining 75% shall be for us and will be used into investment in your country. This transaction is entirely risk free.
I will use my position as the next of kin to the money to guarantee the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please contact me via Email your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand this transaction well.

The intended transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law. However, if this business proposal offends your moral ethics, do accept my sincere apology.

If on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me, kindly get back to me with your interest for further explanations.
I will like you to declare you interest if you can be able to come here in my country, because your present will be needed in the security company as my foreign partner. The money is in the box content here in the security vault, I will need the company to release the box to you. What I want is for you to assist me to move the box out of here.

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Country: _ Private Address_
Zip code: _
Private Tel: _
Private Fax: _ _
Company name if Any:_


Kindest Regards
Kathrine Rafael.
kathrineraf@gmail.com















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