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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: "Kgabo Rammutla" (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 11:27:53 +0100
Subject: From Kgabo Rammutla

Sir,

COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE

We are an Investment consultant here in West Africa. We work with
local small scale agro farmers by managing their agro export
businesses globally. Presently we seek foreign representatives,
"TRUSTEES" in our major countries of interest who would, on our
behalf, receive payments from our various RESIDENT Clients and
disburse these as we may advise, often to accommodate payment of
certain agro related product items/machinery we may wish to import
back to Africa from such countries.

Our financial transactions do often range from Ten Thousand to two
Hundred Thousand American currency. By reason of the volume of funds
we expect to transact in the coming months we shall prefer that the
trust account be a corporate account. Note that for every payment
amount you may receive and disburse on our behalf you shall retain
eight percent of these as commission due you or your company for
services rendered. Should you be able to represent our interest in
this wise, then do proceed to provide us with your exact full names,
company name, work or home address, telephone number, Copy of your
company Registration Certificate and a copy of your valid
identification thereafter which I will call to intimate further on our
trade operations.

Faithfully yours,

Kgabo Rammutla
Development Consultant and Strategist. (MSA)
FV&AMC. SA.
rkgabo56@gmail.com

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