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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 Kutesa" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <samkutesa15@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18.26.16 +0100
Subject: RE: FOREIGN PARTNER NEEDED

Attn:

We are an African based craft and arts marketing company, Operating out of Kenya ,for east African Zone and Ghana ,for West African Zone.

We are exporting craft products globally , but since we cannot offer international guarantee for crafts from Africa that will be accepted globally, we have developed a sale and payment methodology that gives our client the assurances they need , to pay for the items. We call it “ Pay on Delivery” . They have the opportunity to receive and inspect the goods and pay after wards.

Currently its costing us a lot having to hire ground personnel to physically take payments from each paying customer in every state in the US, Hence we are proposing a fiduciary service partnership with you or your company. It might serve as a side income flow stream for you. We discovered that most American buyers prefer to pay with Bank checks on the spot. But we do not have an account to clear them in the US, and when we lodge them in our banks here, It takes months to clear and this is affecting our operational funds.

Here is the details of what we are proposing to you: When we ship our products to the US clients, on receipt and inspection, the clients will make out a Check in the name you will provide, and it will be posted to you for subsequent lodgment into your account or to your bank directly, depending on your preference. For every Check cleared you will retain 10% of the value of the funds for your services and 90% will be wired to our destination Bank account.

If this proposal is acceptable to you, We will go ahead to draft out an agreement that will be signed by both parties and valid for 1 year. You will provide us with the required details to make out the Checks by the paying customers, and we are ready to proceed immediately. The Average price of our Products ranges from US$20000 to US$28,000 and more.

I look forward to receiving your valuable response.

Yours sincerely

Sam Kutesa

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