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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: Raphael Kamara <kamaraf3000@yahoo.cn>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:06:51 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Raphael Kamara

From Raphael Kamara
Abidjan - Côte d'Ivoire.
 
Hello Dear
 
It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my junoir sister,intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed some times in life.  I am Raphael Kamara and my junior sister Juliet Kamara, we are the only  son and daughter of late Chief Vincent Kamara, from Sierra Leone. My sources of your  contact gave me the courage and confidence to rely on you.
 
My father was a well known Government politicians in Sierra Leone and a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast, when my mother died on the 6th August 2001, my father took us so special because we are motherless. Before my father was assassinated by his political opposition, he secretly called me one morning on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of Fifteen million, United State Dollars USD($15.000.000.00) deposited in a bank here in Ivory Coast, that he used my name as his only Son for the next of kin in deposit of the fund and handed all the deposit documents to me. I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
 
1)To receive the money for me in your account by providing a Bank account where this money would be transferred to.
 
2)To serve as our guardian because of my inexperince to handle this alone and I do not have business experience before.
 
3)To help me come over to your country as soon as the money is transferred to your account so that we will continue our education and a new life there under your assistant.  
 
We are ready to pay 15% of the total amount to you if you can help us to manage this money another 10% as annual interest to you especially for securing the money for us which you will strongly have absolute control over. I will give you more details when I receive your urgent response.
 
Respectfully Yours,
Raphael Kamara
  

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