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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: "Mr. Ken Cooper" <ken@kelebek.gen.tr>
Reply-To: kencooper77@kelebek.gen.tr
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:06:45 +0800
Subject:


CITI BANK INTERNAIONAL BANK PLC
Po box 1249 queen ‘spark east
Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago

FROM: Mr. Ken Cooper
From Trinidad and Tobago
kencooper77@kelebek.gen.tr

Hello!!

Please Read Carefully and get back to me. I am Mr. Tom Cannon, a
banker with the CITI BANK in Trinidad And Tobago. I was the
personal/secret banker of the former Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan
who was charged with being responsible for the disappearance or
misappropriation of £658,000,000 GBP (€790 million) in military
procurement funds. Mr. Hazem Shaalan was able to deposit part of this
money in my bank with the help of a late Mr. Dane a private contractor
with Halliburton. Mr. Dane had a private sewerage company in Iraq and
with his help former Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan was able to siphon
money out of Iraq to the sum of Fifty

Million United States dollars ($50,000,000.00) into this bank.

With my help he was able to keep these large amounts under the radar.
Mr. Dane has been dead for a long time now and the former Defense
Minister Hazem Shaalan is at large with an Interpol arrest warrant on
his head. The reason that I am telling you all this my friend is that
I am looking for a trust worthy person who will assist me in moving
this fund out of this bank. There is no next of kin to the account
where this money is deposited and there is no chance Mr. Hazem Shaalan
will come back to claim this money because the contractor who
deposited this money in secrecy is dead.

If you will help me, this is what I want the both of us to do
immediately I will present you as the next of kin to the account, I
have all documents and files which will cover you up fully as the next
of kin.

Kindly view this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7444083.stm and I
will explain further when i get a response from you.
Thanks.

Mr. Ken Cooper




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