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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: "Jose Maria Meon" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <josemleon@lawyer.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 18:07:00 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Dear Sir/Madam,

Naturally, this letter will come to you as a surprise since we have not met, permit me however. It is with deep
sense of honor and respect that I humbly make this appeal to you with the understanding that any facts or opinion
expressed in this letter is given in confidence and solely for your personal information and use. I'm Afraid many
things are going on now in the internet which is the only medium I think I can get this issue solved. I also know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will
be well at the end of the day. Let me start by introducing my self properly to you, my name is Barr. Jose MarIa Leon,
a personal Attorney to Late MR. Fethi Zouari, who died along side his entire family on the 11th March 2004 train
bombing in Madrid Spain.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLB3DVNQ9L4      

My purpose of contacting you is for you to help secure the funds left behind by my late client, to avoid it being
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Security Company where this fund valued $18,600,000.00
(Eighteen Million Six Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars) deposited by my client before his death.
The Security Company has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin or the funds will be declared unserviceable
and diverted to the Spanish Government. This type of incident is not new, there are many people who try to evade
taxes in their country of origin by depositing their money in a foreign secret accounts. So far all my efforts to get hold
of someone related to my client have proved abortive. Hence I have contacted you I am actually asking for your
consent to present you to the Security Company as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late client's fund, so that the
proceeds of this fund will be released to you as his next of kin.
All the legal documentations to back up your claim as my client's Next of Kin I shall provide them.
All I require is your information and honest cooperation to enable us achieves this goal.

The intended transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any
breach of the law. This transaction is entirely risk free. However, if this business proposal offends your moral ethics,
do accept my sincere apology. If on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me kindly get back to me with
your interest for further explanations. I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help
you understand this transaction well.

If you are interested in this transaction please reply me via the bellow Email with your contact telephone number
(Including your mobile phone) to enable me nourish you with more details. barrjosemarialeon@lawyer.com

Upon the completion of this transaction I wish to point out that I want 10% of this money to be shared among the
charity Organizations, while the remaining will be shared equally between us.

Yours Faithfully,

barr. Jose María León (ATTORNEY, LL.M.)

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