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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: kofi kiston <kofikiston1@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:25:20 +0000
Subject: UGENT REPLY



Hello good day,

I hope this email meets you in a good state of mind. My name is Ronald Corvino a Sergeant in the USA Military. I am currently on an official duty here in Afghanistan working in Camp FOB Deleram which is the forward operating base of the US Marine.I use this medium to seek for an assistance from you. This will be of a mutual interest and benefits between us.I need a good partner someone I can trust.

I want to use this medium to present you to a Financial company where I did some savings and run some Transactions as my beneficiary whom will make the claims and see that my funds which I deposited with them is been cleared out and have it transferred over to you.

I have an offshore bank account which I operate with and the financial company is in Australia.The company is about to be closed down because they are not meeting up with the government tax,policy,regulations and have not obtain the Australian AFS License. The Australian government have given a last date for the customers to claim their funds deposited in the financial company(Vault Market PTY Ltd). Now am still in Syria on official duty and if I dont have my funds claimed the government will have the company closed down and my money will be confiscated by the Australian Government and will be deposited into the government treasury bank account as an unclaimed funds.

The Australian securities and investment commission (ASIC) stop the sole director of the company(Vault Market PTY Ltd) Mr MD Anamul to stop carrying on a financial service business without an Australian Financial Service (AFS). I have savings with this company,run a Forex trading and also have shares with this company.

I want your help,I want to present you to the company as my beneficiary to receive my funds since,I am still on official duty here in Afghanistan to enable you help and secure out my funds and have them received and kept save until I am through with my official duty here and will fly over to meet with you face to face.

As I write you now,the NSW Supreme court has made interim and restraining Mr Amin and Vault Market from carrying on a financial service business without proving to them that they hold an AFS License.

I am still on an official duty here in Afghanistan and dont have access to have my funds secured out and claimed,this is why I want to present you to the Financial Company as my beneficiary to receive the payment. You may be wondering why I choose to trust a delicate matter like this in the care of a stranger I dont know that much, but this is the best I can do in my present situation. I would have trusted this kind of project in the hands of my friend who was my closest confidant, but I lost her to cancer 7 months after we met, and my only brother has ruined his life with hard drugs, hence my decision to work with a neutral person if we can establish some trust between ourselves since all my friends are in here in the camp with me.

The most important thing is ''' Can I Trust You? If my funds are cleared out and its been transferred to you, you take 30% out from the Funds and keep the rest of the 70% for me until I return to meet with you.

Your 30% of the funds which is for you is to show appreciation for helping me and also assisting me to secure out my money and receive it.

The whole process will be simple and Legal . I await for your response.

SGT. Ronald Corvino


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