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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: "Frank Kibaki" <frankkibaki010@gmail.com>
Reply-To: frankkibaki48@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:14:34 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Dear Pls Read & Get Back To Us.

Dear

Please you can reply to our ( frank.jane22@yahoo.com.hk ) My name is
Frank Kibaki and my sister Jane Kibaki,we are Kenyan National,who is
currently at the refugee camp here in Accra-Ghana.Please i will like you
to assist meand my sister to retrieve and receive our consignment over
there in American that contains $25million United States dollars and some
quantity of gold and Diamond, which I cannot specify.

The consignment is presently in American.The consignments get to the state
through the help of a diplomatic courier agent Mr.Chambas Mohamed IBN The
fact is that Mr.Chambas Mohamed IBN is suppose to have delivered the
consignment to a man called MR.WAYNE RICHARDSON in American.The week
Mr.Chambas Mohamed IBN is suppose to deliver the consignment to him, when
he got to American after clearing the consignment from theAirport,he call
MR.WAYNE RICHARDSON to tell him the description to his house for the
delivery,

but his wife answered the call and told Mr.Chambas Mohamed IBN that her
husband MR.WAYNE RICHARDSON hard a fatal car accident which lead to his
death some few hours later.MR.WAYNE RICHARDSON has already paid the demur
rages from the security company, he paid for Bullion van that took the
consignment to the airport and he paid for custom check report he also
assisted us in getting the DRUG / ANTI TERRORIST CERTIFICATE, but he has
already acquire it,

but unfortunately he died in a car accident, that was why Mr.Chambas
Mohamed IBN has to deposit the consignment with a warehouse over there in
American and called us to informed us about what is happening,and told us
to look for a new beneficiary to received the consignment.So please i will
like you to assist me and my Sister to received the consignment from the
diplomat in the UNITED STATE OF AMERICA NOW.

If you accept to assist us in being our new beneficiary please kindly get
back to us with your delivery address and phone number so we can forward
to the courier agent in UNITED STATE OF AMERICA,for him to contact you for
immediate delivery of our consignment to you.Please you can only reply to
our private email below,

frank.jane22@yahoo.com.hk

Thanks and God bless you
Frank & Jane Kibaki.

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