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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: "Barr. Edward Clinton" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barredwardclintonxx2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:58:56 +0100
Subject: Contact Edward Clinton.

Northman Law Firm,
International Corporate & Business Law Firm federal capital city Abuja
Nigeria.Securities Corporate Finance & Business Law Domestic and
International Business Practice.
Attention Dear,
 
How are you doing today? Hope you are doing great, Thank you.
My Name is Barrister, Edward Clinton, I am originally from United States of
America with Northman Law Firm and Real Estate solicitors Abuja Nigeria, We
have a deceased client  an American Citizen,member of Gulf States and
member of Nigeria Government Oil & Gas Finance, who died Atif, and left a
Sum Amount of(USD$27,000,000,00) Twenty-Seven,  Million United State
Dollars in a Foreign Account under our Law Firm,he bears the same surname
with you.
 
Since his death I have received several letters from the Bank where he
deposited the fund before his death, to provide his next of kin or any of
his relatives who can make claim to the funds before the end of the Month
or the Bank will be left with no option than to confiscate the fund and
turn the money back to the state as it has been marked unclaimed, Contact
me if you are interested  this is a deal between  me and you, again we have
only two weeks to move this fund out.
 
Please provide me your information Details as listed below:
 
Full Names: -----------------------------------
Sex: -------------------------------------------
Age: ----------------------------------------------
Contact address: ------------------------------
Occupation: --------------------------------
Phone number: ---------------------------------
Country of Origin: -------------------------------
 
 
Thanks Best Regards,
Barr. Edward Clinton
 
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Northman Law Firm provides sophisticated and comprehensive advice to
companies and individuals in their day-to-day business, in Libya,Nigeria
Egypt, South Sudan, Ghana USA, London, combining high quality legal
services with a direct relationship with the clients our personalized
attention, competitive.
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