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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: office--file <officefile008806@att.net>
Reply-To: javiskona@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:04:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: complimentry of the season dear friend;




Attn:My Good Friend,



I am Dr Javis Kona, and I am the director of Montgomery Trust Keeping House Co. Sarl ,Benin . I got your information in a professional database when I was searching for a reliable, honest and trustworthy person to entrust this business with.I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. During my audit exercise in my Company early today for the year records, I discovered an abandoned sum of US$ 3.5 Million United States Dollars that was deposited with our company as family valuables that belongs to our late customer, a French Real Estate Tycoon (Mr. David Yves) who died along with his wife and family members some years back. Since then nobody has applied for the claim of the deposited consignment.



I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no response. Finally we discovered from his contract employers that Mr.David Yves and family died in the Air France Concorde flight No. 4590 plane crash. Upon further investigations, we found out that he died without making a "WILL" and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless, As a matter of fact, my company does not know about this and secondly it can only be claimed through his foreign business partner but no names were mentioned as his foreign partner.



Therefore, we made further investigation and discovered that he did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents.Infact I don’t want the money to go back into company and neither do I want our company to know that it was an abandoned fund, The Company law and guideline here stipulates that if any deposited item remained unclaimed after five (5) years, the item will be confiscated and becomes our company's property. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like to present you as the next of kin to Mr. David Yves.

This transaction is very simple and 100% risk free, in as much as I will present you to our Company officially for this claim. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please consider my official positions and reputation and treat this confidentially.



What I needed from you right now is your full co-operation and upon receipt of your reply I will give you full details on how the business will be executed. Note that you will have 40% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to handle this business with me and 10% will be set aside for any expenses that may arise on the process before the deposited money will be delivered to your foreign address as family valuables (etc) while 50% will go for me.



Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement according to the share ration indicated above. I advise you to keep this as a "Top Secret" as I am still in service and intend to retire from service after I conclude this deal with you.



Once again my Company does not know about this transaction,it's between me and you.If you are willing and capable for this transaction, provide me the below details:

1. Name in full: ..................

2. Address: .......................

3. Nationality: ...................

4. Age: ...........................

5. Sex. ...........................

6. Occupation: ....................

7. Marital status: ................

8. Phone no: .....................



Email;javiskona@hotmail.com,



Call me with this telephone number +229 99 42 79 50 for more information.

Looking forward to a positive response.

Best Regards,

Dr Javis Kona.

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