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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: "kingjay" <kingjay80@mail.kz>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:46:32 +0600
Subject: reply


DEAR Sir , Compliment of the season. I contacted you because I
know you can help me. My name is king jay. My mother is from Pakistan
and my late father is from Ivory coast in west Africa and I contacted
you because I want this transaction to be very confidential and we
invest in a good way. in your country.and i also want every
secret because of the money involved is ($15, Million US Dollar
AND 100 kilos of gold dust 99.98%purity ) the gold and money is in 2
big boxes here in Ghana air port ready to delivered out of Ghana. I
have all the documents but I just have only one problem for you to
help me so that the boxes can be delivered to you without any problem.
so that you can help me to sale the gold dust and also help me to
invest the fund. since this is the only thing i inherited from my late
father as his only son. If you can help me, I will other the boxes to
be deliver at your door step.true the UN diplomat called MR
IBRAHIM.Please don't tell any body about this
business because the boxes is in the airport right now here in
Ghana. ready to move out, just to solve this little problem for me and
the boxes will be deliver to you in your country,this is a secret
between me and you alone. I got your contact from one Mr. Ahmed jay he
works with the United Arab Emirate Airline but I did not tell him any
thing about this business, please let's work together in 48 hours you
will get the boxes. Sir kindly REPLY me immediately as soon as you get
this email . All the documents will attached to you as soon as i hear
from you see my attach picture and the gold boxes I wait to hear from
you. God Bless you
call me +233 268119188
king jay

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