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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.Kola Martins" <komart0011@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: infowwwkolamartins@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:08:49 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From :Dr.Dr.Kola Martins

Abidjan, Cote d' Ivoire.
West Africa

Dear Sir,

Permit me to intruduce my good self,my name is Dr.Kola Martins . I work
with the Bank of Africa Abidjan, Cote D'IVoire as an accountant Foreign operation department. In the discharge of my duty on this domiciliary account that has remained dormant for three years now with Four Million Eight Hundred Thousand US Dollars ($4.8M) in it.

I have made all the enquiries and discovered that the account holder died in Auto-crash without leaving no next of kin to the fund deposit. I am writing you so that I can work with you to remit the fund into your account as the next of kin / beneficiary to the fund.

It is simple process which will take a short while to process. outside this, the bank management will confiscate the money if there is no one that comes for the fund as you will be acting as the appointed beneficiary to the fund of which the depositor deposited the fund in the suspence account
and a Foreign Partner is his next of kin which he did not indicated.

If I hear from you, I will tell you all you need to Know about the fund deposit for us to procced with the transaction.

Also provide me your direct telephone to reach you.

Thanks and God bless you.
Dr.Kola Martins



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