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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: "Barrister King Victor ESQ" <barrister_king@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: <barristerkingvictoresq@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 23:57:39 +0100
Subject: Financial Prosperity...

Hello Good Partner,

I have contacted you because I have carried out research into a dormant account of my late client, a national of your country who used to work with NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CO-OPERATION (NNPC) NIGERIA. I am Barrister King Victor, a solicitor at law (Legal Practitioner) and also the personal attorney to the diseased.

The client has no heirs. The account has a significant amount of money in it. An account is judged to be dormant if there has been no activity in it, or contact with the client for 15 years. Normally, account holders lose contact due to death without leaving a will and there's no known heir to inherit. The treasury department receives the unclaimed money unless, a previously unknown distant relative, comes and puts a claim on it; which is usually within a limited time frame. Here in after shall be referred to as my client. Whose sad event took place on the 1st day of June, 1998 and we have mourned the departed. Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my client's extended relatives that has the same last name and this has also proved unsuccessful.

I have conducted very important searches through some heir hunters and found out that there are no next of kin’s to the diseased, hence I contacted you and I am contacting you to assist me in repatriating the funds and properties left behind by my client before it get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the corresponding bank where these huge funds were deposited.

Particularly, the corresponding bank where the deceased had an account valued at about £31 million (Thirty one million thousand British pounds sterling only) has issued me a notice to provide the true next of kin to the diseased as the personal attorney or allow the funds get confiscated into the banking treasury within the next seven official working days.

I seek your consent to present you as the true next of kin to the deceased, since you have the same last name, so that the proceeds of this account valued at £31 million (Thirty one million thousand British pounds sterling only) can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money, 50% to me and 50% to you just to make sure that the funds transferred to your account. More so, I am in possession of all relevant documents legal and institutional that will facilitate our achieving this deal from the Federal High Court of Nigeria.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us conclude this deal. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law or fraudulent activities and it is however important to say that utmost confidentiality is of vital importance if we are to successfully reap the immense benefits of this transaction.

At the closure of this transaction, 50% of the total funds will be yours. So, if you would like to team up with me discreetly to secure these funds for ourselves, please have your full information sent to me which includes. Full Name: Home Address: Your telephone number and fax number: Date of birth: Sex: ID: Occupations: Country & Sate: Next of Kin Name:

Thanks & Best Regards,

Sincerely,

Barrister King Victor ESQ,
King Victor & Associates.
Legal Practitioner, Advocates & Notary Public.
No. 24, North Garriki, Abuja.
Phone: +2347086057609
E-mail: barristerkingvictoresq@yahoo.co.uk

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