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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" <info@kibaki.org>
Reply-To: kibakifrank14@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:06:55 -0400 (AST)
Subject: Spam: ASSISTANCE NEEDED

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 me and 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 the Airport,he call
more blessings more blessings: 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,
more blessings more blessings: 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.
more blessings more blessings: 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,

kibakifrank14@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks and God bless you
Frank & Jane Kibaki.



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