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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: "MBENA UYOGO" <kyormie@latinmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kyormie@zwallet.com
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:05:07 +0000
Subject: MY COMPLIMENTS

Kang Yormie
kyormie@zwallet.com
My compliments,
Kindly accept my apology for sending this mail to you. I sourced your profile through a member of this website and after days of fasting and prayers I decided to contact you. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events and fragile political situation in Liberia but it has formed consistent headlines in the CNN, BBC news bulletins. My name is Miss Kang Yormie from Liberia, a Country in West Africa.
My Father is late John Winpoe Yormie, Deputy Minister of National Security, Liberia. My father was falsely accused of plotting to remove the then PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA (CHARLES TAYLOR) from office Without trial, Charles Taylor's hit man Gen. Benjamin Yeaten killed him and others without trial or fair hearing. You can verify this from your country. You can also check in some of the international newspapers posted in the web sites below (i)<http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-07-15-liberia_x.htm>(ii) <http://www.unwire.org/UNWire/20030716/449_6621.asp>(iii) <http://limany.org/sidikinews.html>. Before my father was killed, he moved out the sum of USD5.5 million which he deposited in a commercial bank in Abidjan Ivory Coast where we are now staying as political refugees. My father has been a business man before he was appointed into Government. We want you to help us rece!
ive the fund in your account, invest and manage it as our partner in your country while we continue with our education. We have to migrate to your country after the fund is successfully transferred to your account.
I and my younger brother (mbena)have agreed to offer you 15% of the total money while the remaining will be for investment but what we solicit most is your trust in this transaction as we don't want someone who will betray us at last. Kindly reply us urgently so that we can know our position and to enable us furnish you with every detail about this our inheritance. Please send your response through my mail box; kyormie@zwallet.com <http://www.zwallet.com/mailto.cgi?sid=1132507&addr=kyormie@zwallet.com>,God bless you.
Truly yours,
Kang



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