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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: "Kamokai Kalima" <kamokaikalima@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:18:29 +0700
Subject: Please read its very important

Dear sir/madam,

I am Kalima Kamokai an Attorney At Law,I am contacting you for you to partner
with me to claim this fund (US$50.5 Million) and some Raw Gold of its equivelent.First of all,by law as a lawyer,it is not compulsary that you must be
related to a deceased person as to be his or her next of kin.
Secondly, anybody, friends, relations, brothers,sisters or even a ghost name
can be used as next of kin to any valuable, including cash deposit when filling forms.
My deceased client though an expatriate with known multi-national company
dealing on Raw Gold in DRC deposited here in Togo the above mentioned fund
and some Raw Gold of its equivelent with a Security and Finance Company  which I assisted to do as a lawyer when he consulted me. Unfortunately he died in a plane crash. This fund has not been unclaimed since his death for almost 2 years and some fraction months.

Since the death of my client I and the finance company has made frantic efforts
to ensure that this fund be given back to the relatives.It seems either the person used as the next of kin to this fund is dead or a ghost name. All efforts has proved abortive.I also contacted his embassy here to locate the relatives of my client, all was unsuccessful.I would have claimed the money myself if not that the company knows me, my office and nationality. There is nothing incriminating by law for me to present you as the next of kin to the fund since I am still the attorney that handled the deposit of the fund at first time.The company is indirectly trying to write off the fund,of course you know in Africa there is no tangible rule of law guiding such deposit.

Finally, can you partner with me to move this fund out of here to your country? As far as I am concerned it is a possible thing that can be done within one or two weeks. I will give you details once I hear from you.

Thanks.
Kalima Kamokai ESQ (LLB)

 


 

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