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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. Kareem Kaita" <kta56kareem@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kareemkta56@live.com
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 03:09:27 +0300
Subject: Asalam-u-Alaikum



Asalam-u-Alaikum,

I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to transfer to your
overseas account the sum of US$8.4Million (Eight Million Four Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars ) from one of the Prime Banks.

I am Mr Kareem Kaita (Bsc,Msc) the head of Audit Department of this
bank where am a staff, during the course of our auditing, I discovered
a dormant account with funds valued at US$8.4Million (Eight Million
Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ) in an account opened in
our bank since 2011 and up till date the account remains dormant.

The owner of the account is Oil business consultant, He was among the
recent BOMB-BLAST dead victims of the BOKO-HARAM Terror group
alongside with his family. With a personal conviction of trust and
confidence ,I wish to contact you as a foreigner to stand as a
relative/next of kin to the deceased,since you are of the same
surname,thus I can work out the release of this fund. No other person
in this institution knows about the account, please be rest assured of
a risk free transaction,all I require is your cooperation and total
commitment because the account content can not be approved to an
indigence here as his next of kin just as his account file in the bank
implies.

At the conclusion of this project,I propose a joint investment of an
equal partnership to you or we may share it in a ratio of 40% for you
and 60% for me. Please don't consider this business deal proposition
against moral justification, they are many other aspects of life we
may contribute with this funds to help the less privileged and the
needy in any society than having it shared as an unclaimed bill among
Government PLEASE .

I look forward to your earliest response, while I urge you to reply
via my private email only: ( kareemkta56@live.com ) for
confidentiality purpose.

Yours truly,

Mr. Kareem Kaita.


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