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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: "Harry Goldman Esq" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <harryschamber@tlen.pl>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:49:08 -0600
Subject: From Harry & Associates (Urgent)

FROM THE DESK OF
HARRY GOLDMAN ESQ
23 NORTH LYNN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE,
ESSEX, LONDON Uk.
PHONE:+447045771973
FAX :+447045770033
EMAIL: harryschamber@tlen.pl
29/07/09

Good Day,

I am Barrister Harry Goldman Esq, I am contacting you concerning
a deceased client of mine and an investment he placed under a Financial &
Security Firm years ago. I would respectfully request that you keep the
contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you
come by as a result of this mail.

I am contacting you independently of my investigation and no one is informed
of this communication. I would like to intimate you with certain facts that
I believe would be of interest to you. In the year 2002, the financial
insitution contacted me on this matter,for me to porovide the next of kin to my
late client to avoid his funds being confiscated.

My Client Mr Frederick M. Wong and his wife died aboard Egypt Air Flight
990 which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean on October 31 1999. You can View this
page for further information

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm

The Security Firm will by the end of this financial year broadcast a request
for statements of claim to Bank, failing to receive viable claims they will
most probably revert the deposit back to Bank. This will result in the money
entering the Bank accounting system and the portfolio will be out of my hands
and out of the private banking division. This will not happen if I have my
way.

My proposal: I now seek your permission to present you as a next of kin to
the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked out making you
the beneficiary to the funds US$38,000 000 00 (Thirty Eight Million Us
Dollars); I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct The security Firm to
release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt
of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you. That is: I will
simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to
you. We share the proceeds 60/40.I would have gone ahead to ask that the funds
be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my
involvement in claiming the deposit.

I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard
this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is
of no appeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Do
not destroy my career if you do not approve of my proposal. this may be
hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I
make this move. Such opportunities only comes once' way once in a lifetime. I
cannot let
this chance pass me by, for once I find myself in total control of my
destiny. These chances won’t pass me by. I ask that you do not destroy my chance,
if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but
do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide
them with fortunes. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well
worth undertaking.

Please, again, note that I am a family man, I have a wife and children. I
send you this mail not without a measure of fear but I know within me that
nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy
or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from
philosophy.

Please contact me on my private E-mail address: harryschamber@tlen.pl or
call me on my private secure phone number +447045771973
I await your response.

Harry Goldman Esq

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