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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: johnpatt@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:56:05 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=20JOHN=20PATTNI?=

FROM JOHN PATTNI

Dear Friend

Greetings to you,I wish to seek your assistance in a project I will reveal
to youshortly. My name is Mr. John Pattni, the junior
brother to Mr. KamleshPattni of Goldenberg International, Kenya.
Republic of Kenya. Mybrother, Mr.Kamlesh Pattni was a very close
friend and confidant offormer President Daniel Arap Moi of the
Republic of Kenya. I want tobelieve you are very much aware of what is happening
in my countrypresently. I mean the change of the Government in my country,
and I wantyou to know that the main
reason of contacting you is that formerPresident Daniel Arap Moi
has secretly confided in my brother (Mr.Kamlesh Pattni) to take
some funds about Fifteen Million United StatesDollars
(US$15,000,000.00) abroad to keep in a secret account, and thefund was deposited
in the custody of a private security trust firm in Europe.

I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seekyour
assistance to transfer this cash of Fifteen Million
Dollars($15,000.000.00)now in the custody of a private Security
trust firm inEurope, and the money is in trunk boxes deposited and declared
as familyvaluables by my brother. And as a matter of fact by brother, Mr.
KamleshPattni made them to understand that the boxes belongs to his foreign
partner and not former President Daniel Arap Moi as they do not wantanybody
to
know about this funds, despite the fact that the money wastaken away from
Kenya with the help President Daniel Arap Moi.My brothercannot travel out
of Kenya as the new Government is gunning for his headand others that did
save in the past Government so I have to be verycareful with the way I go
about
clearing these funds .So I decided tokeep it safely
as a secret and couldn't tell anyone in my country forthe safety of my life
and that of my family. Though we have neither seennor met each other, I
know we will be able to establish all the trustthat we need to ensure that
the funds is safe with you.

Thus, if youare willing to assist me to move this fund to your
account and yourcountry for safe keeping, you can contact me
through my email addresssending your full names and telephone and
fax numbers to enable usdiscuss the modalities and what your share (percentage)
for assisting mewill be. I will highly appreciate it if my request is given
utmostpriority and consideration. So I humbly solicit your assistance
in the followings

1. To assist me claim this boxes from the security trustfirm as our beneficiary

2. To transfer this money (USD$15M) in yourname to your country

3. To make a good arrangement for ajoint-business investment on our behalf
in your country and you will beour Adviser/ Manager.

For your assistance, I have agreed that 20% ofthe total amount will be for
your effort and another 10 % to cover allthe expenses that we might incur
during the business transaction, Last,I urge you to keep this transaction
strictly confidential as no oneknows about these funds.

Please as you show your willingness, Forwardto me your full name,
address and Tel/Fax numbers, to me via my privateemail address:
( johnpattin@netscape.net ) This is for security reasons asI will only be
accessing my private email earnestly awaiting your response.

Best Regards,

John Pattni

NOTE: FOR MORE INFORMATIONSSEE BELOW

http://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid=5090

http://www.royalafricansociety.org/what_we_do/articles/sundaytimes_08-06

http://www.dur.ac.uk/af-cab.soc/corruption.htm

http://www.kentimes.com/16dec04/nwsstory/opinion.html

http://www.kentimes.com/19oct04/nwsstory/news4.html





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