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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: Pamela Kk <kkpamela2@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:32:28 +0100
Subject: Please can i confide in you?

Hello dear how are you,

Please can i confide in you? It is true that i don't even know you
and i have not met you before but i just want to have faith God
believing that you could be the right person i can talk to at this
point in time;

My health is in a bad state as i talk to you now because of blood
cancer and the last medical report confirmed that i have a very short
time to live, so because of this reason i am contacting you to help me
take care of my only 11 years old son and also help invest and
manage his inheritance.
Please i do not want him to suffer after i am dead and gone but i
want him to have a better future in your country under your care.

I was in a relationship with gold dust merchant in Cote
d'Ivoire,Mr.Kouame Konan and we have 10 years old son.
Mr.Kouame Konan was a He was posioned to death by his business
partner in one of
their business outing out of jealous and wickedness in conspiracy one
of the family member.

After the funeral, his family member threw me and my 10 years old son
out of the family residence claiming that their late brother has a
legally married wife with 2 children, i pleaded
with them to allow my son to stay but they refused standing on thier
point that my son is an illegitimate child so he has no place in their
family because of their greed.

I thank God that before the death of my son's father, he has given me
secretly a certificate of deposit of a bank where he has deposited the
sum of $1,750,000 in a Fixed Depoist Account with the name of my son
as the next of kin but none of his family member is aware of it.

Please i want you to help transfer this my son's inheritance to your
country and invest the money into a good business which you will
manage for my son while he grows up in your country under your care.

If you can help kindly let me know so that i can give you all the
details and contact of the bank for you to deal with them directly.

God bless you;
Mrs. Pamela.

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