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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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Fraud email example:

From: KELVIN KAKULER <kelvin.kakuler@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: kelvinkerkula01@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:06:04 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: FROM KELVIN AND SISITER.


Hello My Dear Beloved,

Good morning,
 
My name is Kelvin Kerkular I am 31 years old, and my junior sister name is Vivian Kerkular, 28 years old, we are Citizens of Liberia, currently residing in the refugee camp in Ghana. We have been searching for a foreigner who can help us to achieve this great deal, we believed that we have finally gotten that person in you whom we can well trust and we will have no doubt in your ability to handle this proposal involving huge sum of Money.
 
We became an orphans some couple of years ago. We are contacting you about a need we have and we believe you are well able to help us after our severe and fervent prayers for God to link us up with some one who will be capable of helping us out from Ghana as our foreign beneficiary. It all depends on our trusting each others but we've chosen to contact you prayerfully and believing that you are the person that can help us.
 
The source of our parent’s death was believed to be from our detractors who are never happy that he was making so much progress. The issue is that our parents are diamond merchants in our country Liberia and they made so much money from the business, that prompted the government of Liberia to probe them.
 
For this reasons, during the crisis in Liberia, our home was among the first target by the Liberian rebels. They allegedly said that, our late parents have a close relationship with former president of Liberia (President Charles Taylor) that was their reason of storming our home. our mother died immediately they storm our resident and our father sustained serious bruises that he could not survive while in the hospital.
 
This is a confidential matter we will like to discuss with someone whom my spirits accepted to deal with, because after our parents exit, the government of Liberia have taken over all of our belongings. They have also emptied our parents bank accounts left alone with a deposit which my late father made in a nearby country called Ghana during his trade to Ghana. No one knows of this deposit, it is only me and my sister Vivian that knows of the deposit. And my father had earlier warned us not to disclose this issue to anyone in Africa before he died in the hospital after the incident that cause his death, the content of the boxes were not made known to the security company either, where the boxes were deposited for safe keeping, he told them that the content was a family Valuables that he intends to ship out of the country to meet with one of his foreign partner.
 
I and my younger sister Vivian managed to escape during the incident, and today we fend for ourselves here in the Bujumbura refugee camp, Ghana. Just before my father died, he called  my attention as his next of kin to the money and charge me to look for a foreigner who would assist me in transferring  the funds to abroad so that it will be safer because he doesn't trust African people. So we would be very grateful if you could accept to help us achieve this great objective, you will also help us to invest the money pending on when we will be with you to take control of it from you.
 
Life has been very difficult since the government of Ghana started their deportation exercise which says that we refugees should evacuate their Bujumbura refugee camp to our various countries. Please my dear beloved, our plans now are to relocate from Ghana since we can not afford to go back to Liberia following our past experience as they killed our parents, but we will need to move out the fund left by my late father here in Ghana.
 
In the attached files, you will see a photograph picture which my late father took me before he made the deposit as a proof, and a picture of my sister, Vivian. so I want you to go through them carefully. sometime ago there was a problem in the camp and my sister lost her Liberia passport but one of the lawyer that we met in the camp told us that she can apply for another passport through the embassy of Liberia here in Ghana.
 
You are to stand for us as our late fathers foreign beneficiary that suppose to claim and receive the boxes deposited with the security company, and we will need some of your information's that we are going to submit to the security company for the releasing of the boxes to you, they are as follows:
 
(1) Your Full Names.
(2) Your Home or Office Address.
(3) Your cell phone Number.
(4) Occupation.
(5) Age.
 
Please let us know if you are willing to help us, and what will be your percentage for your assistance?
 
Please NOTE that the earlier you help us the better as you will be doing Almighty God a great favor because our lives are no more safe with these people over here. I will need your reply stating your readiness to help in seeing this through.
 
We wait for your favorable reply and please feel free if you have any question to ask.

Please reply to this email address: kelvinkerkula01@hotmail.com
 
Thanks and be bless

Kelvin and Vivian.
Phone: +233 272916707






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