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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: "Mr Kevin Richard" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <centralmarketpoint@cantv.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 18:35:18 +0100
Subject: Please I Am Highlly Waiting For Your Reply Today

Dear Sir

How are you doing?. My intention of contacting you is to solicit your assistance for a project, whichwill be mutually beneficial. Though I know my decision to contact you is to a large extent unconventional, the prevailing circumstances necessitated my action and I know this mail will come as a suprise to you but from a sincere heart with honest desire for your assistance.

In a brief introduction, My name is Kevin Richard from Sierra Leone.It is my pleasure communicating with you for the first time and believing that it will lead to a better relationship between us. I have an inheritance which was left for me by late father but the bank said they were instructed by my late father during depositing of the money,that it is only his business partner that is authorised to withdraw the money because of my age when he made the agreement with the bank but now my father is late and was killed by this his partner who was suppose to withdraw the money and give to me according to mylate father's instruction and because of this, I am afraid and of contacting the man or letting him know I want to withdraw the money and I will never let him know about the money or call him. So right now I

have explained to the Bank Manager incharge about the situation and he said I should introduce another business partner of my late father to withdraw the money for me transfer it to their country immediately and base on this, I checked through your country profile in our chamber of commerce and saw your details and I decided to contact you for this assistance since I have the plan to come and settle down in your country and invest. I will please want you to stand as my late father's business partner in claiming the money from the bank where it is right now. And please I also want to let you know according to the Bank Manager, that this will involve a little expenses because the Bank said my father's partner will have to make a change of beneficiary and as well as obtain the remittance clearance documents from the Ministries concerned so that all the inittial documents of the deposit will read your name befor remittance to your country and the total amount in the account for w
ithdrawal is US$60.5million.

Note that I resolved to compensate you with 30% of the total sum if only you can assist me faithfully to claim the money and assist me also in investing the money in any lucrative business in your country or anywhere in the world you may deam ok and every expenses incured in moving the money to your country account, will be refunded with interest.

Further to this, please I will give you more detail and forward all vital information to you as soon as I hear from you. Note also that the Bank Manager said I should give you his private telephone number to call him incase you find it necessary for any reason.

Please respond to this mail through this email address: centralmarketpoint@cantv.net

Regards as I urgently await to hearing from you.

Mr Kevin Richard


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