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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: "SAMUEL AND GLADYS KALMA" <sammykohnn@ymail.com>
Reply-To: samuelglakalamaa@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:38:52 +0200 (EET)
Subject: FROM SAMUEL AND GLAD KALMA...




Greetings,

Good Day and be bless as I introduce myself to you with all faith and hope you will
understand us and not betray us or let us down at the end.

My name is SAMUEL and my sister's name is GLAYS KALMA, we are the children of late CHIEF
DUNGA HERBERT KALMA, I am 17 years old, we are from republic of Sierra Leone, but we are
resident in Abidjan Cote D’ivoire, our father died years ago in our country Republic of
Sierra Leone, before Our father He was into legal solid minerals, diamonds and gold mining
sealing which was under his positions in government then, and he has succeeded in saving
(US$9.500, 000.00) Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars, during our late
father’s business on legal solid minerals, diamonds and gold mining selling he went on a trip
to Republic of Cote D'Ivoire nearby country to our country to save his money for security
reasons because of the political problems in our country, as our father return back to our
country Unfortunately he is dead the rebels kills him the rebels assassinate our father and
burnt our houses and all properties into ashes, and regarding to the money, I will not want
this money to be kept like that without any investment purpose please we are contacting you
with full trust to assist and help us to transfer this money out from here to your country
for investment purpose hoping that you will not disappoint us or let us down.

After the death of our father, my mother took us to Abidjan Ivory Coast here we are right
now and our mother died here in Ivory Coast in a private hospital because of the injuries she
sustained when the rebels attack our parents, now we are here without any help in a totally
strange country without parents at our tender ages.

According to our mother’s advice, our mother told us to look for somebody who is trustworthy
and God fearing person who can help us to transfer this money to his account, and After the
transfer of the money to your account we will give you 30% of the total money as your own
part of share for assisting to received and invest the money, Our mother gave us all the
vital documents that cover this money in the bank before she died,

We have visited the bank to make inquires on how to transfer this money out from here and the
bank said that they will transfer this money to any of my late father’s foreign business
partner as soon as i provide my late father’s foreign business partners details to the bank
who is to stand as the foreign beneficiary to receive and invest the money,

The bank said that our late father reached an agreement with bank stated that the money is
for onward transfer to a foreign beneficiary’s account and entered my name as the next of
kin. The bank said that our late father did not introduce or gave any name to the bank as
his foreign beneficiary rather he stated that in case of any problem that I the only son
will submit to the bank the details of foreign beneficiary,

The bank said that I should look for someone who will stand as our late father’s foreign
business partners the beneficiary so that they will transfer this money to he or her bank
account

Please we need your assistance to stand as our late father’s foreign business partner, the
foreign beneficiary who is to receive and invest the funds US$9.500, 000.00 million in good
profitable business,

Please if you are willing and interested in this transaction please give us your details so
that we will introduce your details to the bank as the foreign beneficiary who is to receive
and invest the funds

Now permit me to ask these few questions:-

1. Can you honestly help me as your own person?
2. Can we completely trust you?
3. Hope my percentage offer is good accepted by you?

Please, Treat this email confidential and get back to us as soon as possible.

Please for security reasons reply to our privet Email Address ( samuelglakalama@yahoo.fr ),
please you can call us with this number immediately as soon as you received this mail
(+225-086-959-44 ) for more information.

Yours Sincerely,
Samuel and Glad Kalma

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