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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 <rafkath@faithserve.com>
Reply-To: kathrinerafael@rocketmail.com
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:49:59 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From Kathrine Rafael

From Kathrine Rafael
Rue de Dulie 7th Avenue
Plot 41 Williams Ville

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

l am an orphan having $9,500,000 USD with a private trust company for safe keeping. I am willing to offer you 25% of the total fund if you can assist me to retrieve this money from the trust company and transfer this fund to your country or any bank of your wish or keep it in your house till I meet you to discuss in details. I wish to invest in a stable economy. My interest is in companies with potentials for rapid growth in long terms.
I am interested in placing my fund in your country, if your
country’s bi-laws allow foreign investment.
You can contact me for more details via my e-mail address with your
reference.

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.

This fund I inherited from my late father who excels as a government contractor Cocoa merchant till his death by the rebels in 2007 in here in the country capital while I lost my mother at my early age of 2 yrs this made me the only child of the family.

According to my father's (WILL), till I am 26 yrs before I could be able to have access to the money or I get a foreign business partner that will help me to secure the money out of here and invest it for me abroad.

The security trust firm has issued me a notice to contact the new beneficiary or the consignment 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.

Don’t fail to indicate interest by furnishing me with your private details phone, fax, address, occupation and age.
Names: _
Country: _ Private Address_
Zip code: _
Private Tel: _
Private Fax: _ _
Company name
Age
Occupation
Yours faithfully,

Kathrine Rafael.











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