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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: marina kabila <marina_kabila45@btopenworld.com>
Reply-To: marinakabila1@cantv.net
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:39:04 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From Mrs. Marina Kabila


>From Mrs. Marina Kabila
London United Kingdom
 
I am contacting you from England .  How are you and your activities today? I hope you are doing well. Please, I want you to give this message your urgent attention and reply me back. It is true that we just know each other for the first time, but I strongly believe that it will take us to a great relationship financially and otherwise. Before I continue my discussion with you, let me officially introduce myself to you. My name is MRS. MARINA KABILA from Democratic Republic of Congo. I was the second wife to the late PRESIDENT LAURENT KABILA who was later assassinated and killed during the crisis in my country.
 
The late president married me when I was 23 / 24 years of age. I had two children with him, and they are presently with me here in England . The Political Crisis started immediately we returned back from our London trip.  My husband married us two, and I am the second wife.  I will not be able to give you the full details that led to that ugly incident, but it all happened that my late husband had a big misunderstand with his eldest son (Joseph Kabila) who is the current president of our country now. In the process of the Political Crisis with the rebels, he was killed / assassinated, and his first son (Joseph Kabila) took over the Power as the president till now.  The political crisis was actually caused by the Rebels as they wanted their personal interest.  It was a painful experience for me and my children. But immediately after the death of my husband who was the president then, I had to move out of the country immediately to save my life and my
two children. For now I am staying in London , with my two children (Lisa and Ruben).
 
The main reason why I contacted you is for you to assist me to transfer the money he deposited in a bank in Africa .  Before the death of my late husband, he deposited the total sum of US$5,700,000.00 (Five Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with the CREDIT UNION BANK in Cote D'Ivoire . When he deposited the fund, he told me about it but he wanted to transfer money to his foreign partner for investment before his untimely death.
 
The money in question is US$5.7 Million Dollars. I can not make the withdrawal of this fund, because my husband registered the beneficiary of the fund as his foreign business partner. The documents of the deposit are with me here in U.K. What I would want you to do is to assist me to transfer the fund from the bank in Africa to your own account. Since my late husband registered the deposit with the name of his foreign partner as money meant for investment, we shall replace the name of the foreign partner to your own name because the code was used for security reason. For your kind assistance I will give you 30% of the money immediately it arrives into your account.
 
I can not travel back to African to transfer the money because I came here as a Refugee. And I will not like to go back there till the crisis is over. I have been in contact with the bank and they assured me that they will process the transfer as soon as they hear from my late husband’s partner or the person who will represent him. All you have to do is to contact them as the foreign partner to my late husband.
 
As soon as the money arrives into your account, you will take the 30% of the total fund, and I would use the remaining balance of the money for an investment in your country for the future of my children. If you are interested and willing to assist me, please email me immediately for more information. I am willing to trust this fund into your hand and I want you to assure me that you will take good care of the money when it arrives to your account.
 
Also note that I am staying in England as a refugee because of the assassination of my late husband and the civil war going on in our country (Democratic Republic of Congo).  You can read more about the Congo problem and the death of my late husband on the BBC news below:
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1124841.stm
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1125079.stm
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/country_profiles/1076399.stm
 
I will be waiting for your urgent reply as soon as you receive this message.
 
Thank you very much God bless you.
 
Best Regard.
Mrs Marina Kabila

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