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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: "Beneficiary" <beneficiary01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: keneth_khumer001@live.com
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:12:51 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Attention !!!

Hallo,
In our search for a trustworthy individual to work with us on a very important and
confidential project, we came across your esteemed profile.
My name is Kenneth khumar, a principal executive officer in the audit department of
the amalgamated bank of South Africa (ABSA Bank) here in South Africa. During the
yearly preliminary in-house auditing of accounts, I discovered an account opened in
2000 and since 2005 has remained dormant which means that nobody has been operating
it up till date. The amount in this account is huge less accrued interest.
Working together with the audit manager, we decided to investigate this account for
more information. We discovered that the owner of this account, foreigner has died
inter-state leaving no heirs or next of kin who could make a claim. Presently, we
are the only two people in our organization with access to this information and we
have decided to keep it that way and search a third party who will take the place of
the deceased next of kin. We will supply all the necessary information on the
deceased and ensure that the claim application is giving immediate approval.
Required documents will be obtain and forwarded to you for an official onward
submission to the bank.
The project is risk-free as we will use contacts that hold strategic positions in
the bank to effect a successful completion of the project and also ensure that all
traces of our mutual involvement are completely wiped off.
We would like to get your decision to this proposal as soon as possible. On receipt
of your decision, we will email you explicit details of the already completed
groundwork on this project.
You can contact me now on this email:
keneth_khumer001@live.com
Best Regards,
kenneth khumar

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