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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. Raphael Nolan" <G-Manager2016@yandex.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 01:28:33 +0000
Subject: YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED

Good Day,

I am contacting you to seek your cooperation/agreement to present you as the beneficiary to an inheritance fund to the tune of $12.5 Million Dollars belonging to my late client who passed away in September 2009.

My late client Mr.James Owen Kitterman who was the President/Ceo of Janus Construction was killed in Iraq and I am fully convinced that no one would turn up to execute the letter of Administration to claim his funds as since his death in the year 2009, I have monitored this funds expecting any of his relatives to come forward to claim his money but since he did not have a written WILL or declared any of his relative's information in his records with the bank or my law firm and professional ethics obligates me to act with extreme confidentiality when dealing with clients of this type.

I decided to contact you to come in as the next of kin/beneficiary to my late client and it does not matter if you are not directly related to my late client but as his lawyer for many years known to the bank where the funds are deposited, I am in a position to present you as the only surviving Beneficiary/Next of Kin to my late client so that the funds can then be transferred to your nominated bank account within 10 working days after we have filed in a claims transfer application and it will then be shared equally between us.

All relevant papers will be legally processed so that everything we will be doing would be by the book and above board to meet all legal requirements in both your country and mine so as to avoid any problems in future when the funds would be sitting in our accounts.

Do get back to me if you are interested in this partnership so that I can give you a comprehensive breakdown on how we will go about getting this transaction done 100% legally.

Kind Regards,

 

Barrister Raphael Nolan 

 

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