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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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Fraud email example:

From: Sam Jokolo <caro@heliosenergy.co.ke>
Reply-To: <samjokolo@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:56:15 +0800
Subject: Greetings from Sam dayana

Greetings from Sam

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is
not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to
transfer to overseas account ($160,000.000.00) One hundred and sixty
million US DOLLARS from a prime Bank here in Abidjan. I want to ask
you, If you are not capable to quietly look for a reliable and honest
person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank
account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money,
even an empty a/c can
serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me
till the end for this important business trusting in you and
believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in
future I am Mr. Jokolo Sam , presently promoted to Auditor
General in one of the banks here in Abidjan cote d'ivoire.
During the course of our auditing last week, I discovered a floating
fund in an account opened in the bank in 2010 and since 2015 nobody
has operated on this account again, after going through some old files
in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without
a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this
money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Mr. Keith Lathan an American and a great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska State, who
unfortunately lost his life in the Auto crash in Alaska, which crashed
on January 31 2012, including his wife and only daughter leaving
nobody to claim the money. No other person knows about this account or
anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that the account is a secret
account.

The total amount involved is One hundred and sixty million US DOLLARS
only [160,000.000.00 DOLLARS] and we wish to transfer this money into
a safe foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner; I am
only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local person here, but to a foreigner who has
information
about the account, which I shall give to you upon your positive response.
I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let
me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I
am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you the next step to take urgently. I need your strong
assurance that you will never let us down, me and a key bank official
who is deeply involved with me in this business.

I guarantee you that this transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law. The bank official will destroy all documents of the transaction
immediately you receive this money leaving no trace to any place. I
will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for
onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate
clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange
departments At the conclusion of this
business, you will be given 30% of the total amount, 70% will be for us.

PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.

Best Regards

Mr. Jokolo Sam.

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