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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: KINGSTON WAYNE <kingstonwayne@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: kingstonwayne@cantv.net
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:52:02 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: MAIL


FROM KINGSTON WAYNE.


Dear,
Iam Kingston Wayne the only son of Late General Vincent Wayne the former Director of military inteligence and special acting General Manager of the Sieria Leone Diamond mining coperation( SLDMC ). Iam  contacting you to seek your good assistance to transfer and invest USD 6.850,000,00 million belonging to MY late father which is deposited in a bank  in Madrid Spain.
This money is revenues from solid minerals and dimonds sales which were under my fathers possession before the civil war broke out. Following the break out of the war, almost all government offices,coperations and parastatals were attacked and vandalized.
The SLDMC was loothed and burnt down to ashes,and diamonds worth millions of dollars was stolen by the rebel military forces who attacked our fathers office, many top government officials and senior army officers were assasinated and our father was a key target because of his very sensitive military possition and appointment in the SLDMC.Regreatably, our father was captured and murdered along with his brother in cool blood during a mid-night rebel shoot-out when our official residence in freetown was armbushed by Fordey Sanko the notorious rebel leader. Our mother sustainded very sever bullet injuries which resulted to her untimely and painful death in a private hospital here in Ivory Coast.
Now iam alone  in a totally strange country without parents, relatives or any body to care for me at my tender age. Before my mother died, she told me that my father deposited some money which he made from diamond sales and contracts in a bank here in Madrid Spain and that i should pray and find a trust worthy foreign business partner who would help me to transfer and invest this money in profitable business venture .
She told me to do this quickly so that i can leave Ivory Coast and then settle down abroad. She gave me the bank document to prove the deposit and then told me that my father used my name as the only son to deposit the money in the bank. My mother died after wards. May her spirit rest in perfect peace.
I have contacted the bank to make inquires about this money and I spoke with the Manager of International remittance who assured me that everything is intact and promised to help me in claim of this money to my father's  partners bank account as soon as i provide our fathers partners bank account for them. However, the manager is very concerned because of my age,  and advised that i should look for a matured person that will represent me at the bank.
If you are willing to assist me, please let me know immediately so that you will arrange the transfer of the money to your account with the bank.Please note that i will offer you 15% of the total money as compensation for your noble assistance in accodiance with my mothers advise. I am interested in any profitable commercial venture which you consider very good in your country and you would also get a school for me,  so that i can finish my college education.
Please there is urgent need for the money to be transferred to your account because.I am hoping to hear your urgent response so that i will not look for another person.  Thank you and may God bless you and your dear family.
Yours sincerelyKINGSTON WAYNE

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