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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: "Barr. William Davidr" <>
Reply-To: barr_williams_esq@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 14:19:10 +0100
Subject: Intent Of Partnership.

Dear Friend,

I am Barr. Williams David, a solicitor at law in Madrid Spain . I am the personal attorney to one late Mr Eric Margales, a business magnate who worked with an indigenous company here in Euroupe. Mr Margales died on July 25,2000 in a plane crash along with his wife(Maryln) and James(son)Amanda(Daugther). Visit the webpage http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/905308.stm

Before the catastrophe, He deposited the sum of 7.5M, ( SEVEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS ONLY) with one of the Bank branch office in Spain for safe keeping.
As the personal attorney/trustee to my late client, the bank has mandated me to present a member of his family (heir/inheritor) to make Claims of this deposit or the funds shall be confiscated and transfered to the Bureau of Diplomatic Securities as unclaimed deposit.

In view of this development, I have made several effort and search for a direct family member of this my late client which seems to prove abortive. Rightnow I have been given another ultimatum by the bank to get any of his business associate/partner to come for the claim of this insured fund or have it liquidated and made unserviceable in accordance with existing laws.

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I would want to present you as my late client’s next of kin/ business associate. I know you may not be anyway related to what we are talking about but having in possession of every document related to this deposit coupled with the modalities I have in place, be rest assured that if you follow my instructions and directives strictly (The rule of laws) and capitalizing of some judicial loop holes, the funds in question will be release to us. Mind you that this transaction is 100% risk free, there is no atom of risk connected to this because every modalities in this transaction will be on a high profiled level so long as you will be capable to handle it.

Once the funds is approved and released in your name, we shall divide the content in the ratio of 50/ 50%.
Note, all legal documents to back up your claim as my client's business partner will be made available. I will be obliged to give you further information you may need to know as soon as I receive a positive response from you. Feel free to contact me through my telephone and fax number and Email: barr_williams_esq@hotmail.com Please be kind to get back to me even when you are not willing to collaborate with me so that I can further my search for another partner.

Best Regards,
Barr. William David

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