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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: "Capt. Alfred Kere" <alfred.kere@aol.com>
Reply-To: alfredkere@aol.com
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 00:04:03 +0200
Subject: from Capt. Kere

Dear Friend,

I am Captain Alfred Kere of the US Marine Force on Monitoring and Peace -keeping mission in Libya.On the 4th day of May 2011, we were alerted on the sudden presence of some rebels
camping in a suburb not too far from Benghazi here in libya. After Immediate intervention, we captured twenty six (26) of the rebels.

In the process of torture they confessed and took us to a cave in Benghazi which served as their camp. Here we recovered several guns, bombs and other Ammunitions including some boxes
among which two contains nuclear weapons, and the other two boxes to my amazement contains some US Dollars amounting to $8million US Dollars.

I got your email contact through the African Trade Union Directory here in Libya and I therefore decided to contact you, in the hope that you might be of help of receiving and secure the two
boxes containing the us Dollars in your country for our mutual benefit.

In case you oblige my proposal to you, please be mindful of the fact that I would prefer that you keep this foregoing very confidential at least for now. If all said is done,I already have it in my
plan tentatively to relocate to your country. In which case, I would appreciate if you can help me invest the funds in a viable business venture overseas.

However, I would be open to your candid suggestions, advise and concerns, above all to negotiations.

I shall await your urgent response to enable me give you the full details possibly to follow up this letter in a more comprehensive manner. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me,
and I shall be very willing to answer you as honest as possible.

Best Regards
Capt. Alfred Kere
Email contacts: alfred.kere@aol.com
alfredkere@aol.com

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