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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: David Kabaka <davidkabakareal@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:22:53 +0100
Subject: Be our beneficiary

Be our beneficiary,

Greetings to you and your entire family, i am David Kabaka from Sudan, i am
the son of late Mr. Phillip Kabaka the former minister of Finance in Sudan
and also a Gold and Diamond merchant, we lost our Parent's during a
political crisis in our country, but before the death of my father he told
me and my sister that he deposited $35 Million United State Dollars in a
Bank in Ghana and my name was put as the next of kin, he said we should
leave to Ghana and call one of his friend in USA and tell him to help us
out of Africa and invest the fund for us, but unfortunately the telephone
number was switch-off and later we lost the telephone number.

So after the burial of my parent's my sister and i came to Ghana with the
documents and we went to the Bank to inform them that since we have lost
our parent's we want to transfer our inheritance funds out of the country.
They told us that they heard about the death of our parent's and we should
accept their condolence and when ever we are ready to claim the funds they
will gladly transfer it to where ever we want.

My sister and i want to leave Africa to Abroad according to my father dying
wish and we want you to help us receive the funds, be our beneficiary and
invest the money for us. If you are willing and ready to be our beneficiary
then get back to us and we will tell the Bank to transfer the fund to you.

Thank you.

David Kabaka

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