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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: "m.kennedy@afdb.org" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mbekeanikennedy@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:03:06 +0200
Subject: Very Important Message - Please get back ASAP

Mr. Kennedy Mbekeani, Officer-in-Charge
African Development Bank Group
Centurion, South Africa
Email: mbekeanikennedy@gmail.com
Direct Line: +27812368540

Dear Partner

Founded in 1964, Constituent Institutions -The African Development Bank (ADB), The African Development Fund (ADF) & The Nigeria Trust Fund (NTF). Shareholders include 54 African countries (regional member countries) & 26 non-African countries (non-regional member countries) while the Mission is to promote sustainable economic growth and reduce poverty in Africa.

My name is Mr Kennedy Mbekeani, Officer-in-Charge; I work with African Development Bank Group as the Officer-in-Charge of the South African branch and also, supervising the Simermeyer Foundation of Arthur Simermeyer & Marie Simermeyer. On May 19th, 1997, Marie Simermeyer announced their plans to give $34 million USD (Thirty four Million United States Dollars) to set up the Simermeyer Foundation, an educational foundation in the MEA (Middle East and Africa). The Simermeyer’s stated the money is meant to bridge the knowledge gap between the USA and Europe region and the developing countries, improving the standard of education and research in the region, developing leadership programs for youth, and stimulating job creation. The announcement was made with a confidentiality agreement as a clause. The foundation
funds in four areas: Culture, Entrepreneurship and Employment and Housing and Properties, Knowledge and Education but they passed away and could not accomplish his project. Until this very moment the money has been deposited with my bank African Development Bank Group , South Africa Branch, and no one has ever come up to claim this fund and you can confirm the genuineness of the deceased death by clinking on the links below:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/nov/02/egyptaircrash.usa4
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/502503.stm
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/nov/02/news/mn-28957

For years it has been watched and no one has come to claim it; I do not know if this transaction suits your personal or business ethics but I do want you to understand that this transaction is free from any irregularities. Why I am doing this is because don’t want the corrupt South African and African Union government to take over the fund due to the economic problem going on in South Africa and Africa as a whole. As a delegate of my Bank at the just concluded 25th AU Summit in South Africa (7-15 June 2015) the long forgotten foundation fund is at risk and I wish to save the foundation's fund.

I will be obtaining all relevant documents from the remittance department and have it changed to your name before presenting you as the next of Kin automatically if you wish to receive this fund. As soon as the fund is transferred to your account, I will put away all documents to cover any trace of the fund. As a banker and officer in-charge of the Bank’s South Africa operations, I wish to keep you informed and you might have to set up an account in your name with a South African bank and will deposited fund into your account to enable you to complete the transfer online to your country; online is the safest way doing business of such value no matter where you are located and have the money deposited into this account after legally becoming next of Kin; I will tell you this is very easy for me to do if I can gain your trust. All I need from this transaction is 5% of the total sum as you can keep 15% to yourself but I would like you to invest 80% into Properties for the charity when the fund eventually gets t

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I hope to hear from you soon as you will never regret working with me.

Thank you

Mr. Kennedy Mbekeani
African Development Bank Group
Centurion, South Africa
Email: mbekeanikennedy@gmail.com
Direct Line: +27812368540

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