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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: George Kala <georgekala0@gmail.com>
Reply-To: georgekalaa@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:47:17 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR RESPOND




Hello my good friend,Greetings to you in the most wonderful name of our Almighty God. His richest blessings shall be upon you forever.I hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and  confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families.I decided to contact you directly for sake of business. MY NAME IS Mr GEORGE KALA  FROM OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO,
OCEANIC BANK PLC (OCB) of BURKINA FASO,There is
U.S$6.700,000 M DOLLARS (SIX MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS)  deposited in our bank,The deceased operates an account with this bank but during the period of deposite, no name was written in his account documents as his next of kin or relatives. He died in Air disaster  alongside with his family members,I tried everything humanly possible to locate his relatives but all efforts failed. and If his fund still left dormant in the next couple of months the fund will be confiscated to BURKINA FASO government or the fund might be shared among some top corrupt government officials OR THE FUND WILL BE TRANSFERRED INTO THE BANK TREASURY AS UNCLAIMED FUND.It is for these reason's that I have seeked for your urgent and sincere help to get this fund transfered into your bank account,YOUR URGENT RESPOND IS NEEDED to enable me give you more details about the transfer of the funds into your bank account FOR OUR SHEARRING AND INVESTMENT OF THE
FUND UNDER YOUR CARE.
WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON.
 PLEASE SEND ME YOUR INFORMATION:
 
YOUR FULL NAME:
YOUR AGE :
SEX:
OCCUPATION:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
CITY:
PHONE NUMBER
COUNTRY:

YOURS FAITHFULLY
MR.George Kala

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