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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: "johnkata9@zipmail.com.br" <johnkata9@zipmail.com.br>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:56:16 -0300
Subject: Dear, Greetings!

Greetings,
I am MR.JOHN KATA the head of file department of Bank of Africa (B.O.A) here in Benin Republique.
In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of US$ 60,500,000.00 (SIXTY MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his family in plane crash.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you so that our bank will release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased client since nobody is coming for it.
 I agree that 50% of this money will be for you, while 50% would be for me,and any expenses will share between the both party. Then after the money is been transferred into your account, I will visit your country for an investment under your kind control.

You have to contact my Bank directly as the real next of kin of this deceased account with next of kin application form. You have t o send me your information below to enable me use it and get you next of kin application form from bank, so that you will contact Bank for the transfer of this money into your account.

Your Full Name__________________
Your Home Address___________________
Your Age ___________________
Your Telephone Number___________________
Your Occupation ______________________

I will expect a straight answer from you. Yes or no. If yes, I am waiting for your urgent response to enable us proceed further.

Mr.JOHN KATA

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