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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: "barjohn" <barjohn@indiatimes.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:10:56 +0530
Subject: hello

DEAR SIR/MADAM,
I am Barrister James Phillips, a Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to Mr.Johnson,a national of your country, who used to work with shell development company in Nigeria.
On the 21st of April 2003, my client,his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident along Sagbama Express Road.
All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to His embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted you.
I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the finance house where this huge deposits were lodged. Particularly,where the deceased had an account valued at about 12.5 million U.S.D dollars.
This finance house has issued me a notice to provide his next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days. since i have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 2 years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are from the same country and share the same last name so that the proceeds of his account valued at $12.5 million U.S. dollars can be paid to you and then you and me
can split the money on will be discussed percentage.
I have access to all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation 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 get in touch with me via this email address
bar_john2@yahoo.com to enable us discuss further.
Best regards,
John Esq.

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