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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: DR WILLY KABBA <likashingholdings00@gmail.com>
Reply-To: willy4kabba990@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:43:35 -0700
Subject: Donation For You

Hi,

My name is Li Ka-shing, a philanthropist and the founder of Cheung
Kong Holdings and Li Ka Shing Foundation, I am the Chairman of the
Board of Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL) and Cheung Kong Holdings, the
world's largest operator of container terminals and the world's
largest health and beauty retailer. We offer support to children
through innovative education initiatives. Our core focus is to
encourage enterprise through education, training and building the
right skills today so our young people can become the entrepreneurs of
tomorrow. I believed strongly in ‘giving while living.’ I had one idea
that never changed in my mind — that you should use your wealth to
help people and I have decided to give USD$1,200.000.00 (One Million
Two Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) to randomly selected
individuals worldwide. On receipt of this email, you should count
yourself as the lucky individual. Your email address was chosen online
while searching at random. Kindly get back to me at your earliest
convenience, so I know your email address is valid.

(willy4kabba990@gmail.com) Email me.

Visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ka-shing or you can Google me (
Li Ka-shing).

Regards,

Sir Ka-shing Li, GBM, KBE,
Founder Cheung Kong Holdings
Li Ka Shing

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