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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: CAROL MBAKWE <pksabah@kraftangan.gov.my>
Reply-To: CAROL MBAKWE <cmbakwe0017@walla.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 01:19:44 +0800 (MYT)
Subject: MESSAGE FROM CAROL

Dearest one,


Please do not let this letter keep you wondering why it should be
You that I will trust with these information’s that I am about to
Reveal to you.

My name is Carol Mbakwe an American citizen by birth and I am 17 years of age and the only
Surviving child of my parents, Mr Sam and Mrs Alice Mbakwe, My parents were
Natives of Africa, they migrated to the United States and We lived at No 43 Wall nut Avenue East Orange New Jersey USA, my mother fell sick and died June 1998, My father became Weak every now and then, he will fall sick just because his life love was gone,
He got retired from his office, Fidelity National Insurance Company few months after, from there we moved to New York City because of my Dads medication.

Then December 2000 my father called me and told me that he doesn't
Want to die in a foreign land. That he felt the best thing for him to do now is for us
to relocate back to his home country of Africa.

Unfortunately on the 22nd of February 2002 my father collapse and later died.
Why am I telling you, a total stranger you may ask!!! My uncle is searching every
Where looking for my late father's bank documents so he can take the money away.

But he doesn't know that I have hidden the documents in a safe place where he cannot find it, based on my late dad advice on his sick bed before his death. This secret has been in my mind for some time now and I don't even know who to tell because I need someone to help me received this money in a foreign account to enable me continue my education and then invest with when am matured. These same people that call themselves my relatives are mean and are ready to eliminate me because of this inheritance if they discovered that my late father left such huge amount of money for me as his only daughter and the next of kin to his wealth, my late father even warned me to relocate if he happens to die so I moved to Haiti in 2006 with the help of a Missionary who resettled me there for safety but now my breath of freedom and safety has been cut short by this horrible quake that struck Haiti leaving me once again to another round of struggle for security and this is the reason why I make contact with you to help me received the money.

Please respond to this mail and include with it your telephone number to enable
me give you more details and the then send your number to my father’s accounting officer in African to guide you on how the money can be moved to your account while I come over to meet you.

I know you will never cheat on me because I am convinced that God will never permit me to contact the wrong person, l know that He works in a miraculous way that still remain misery to man, the same revelation to help an orphan will start from you.

Please get back to me ASAP with a telephone number to reach you.

Carol Mbakwe.

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