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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: "Advocate Eden. T" <db29062@gmail.com>
Reply-To: eden.tay@aol.com
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 23:00:47 +0200
Subject: Benefit Proposal


Greetings,



I’m Eden Tay, an Attorney by profession. I am the personal attorney to a
late government official, who had links to the BP Oil Exploration Company
in Southern Africa, herein after shall be referred to as my client.



On the 21st of April 2006, my client, his wife and their three children
were involved in a car accident. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately
lost their lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to their embassy
to locate any of my client’s extended relatives. However, this has proved
unsuccessful. I came to know about you through an enquiry I was making on
the internet, and I found out that you have the same second name with my
client, that is why I have decided to contact you, in order to assist in
repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they
get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank.



Particularly, the bank where the deceased had an account valued at about
US$ 100 Million Dollars, has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin
or have the account confiscated. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating
the relatives for over two [2 years] now I seek your consent to present you
as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so
that the proceeds of this account valued at US$100 Million Dollars can be
paid to you and then you and I can share the money, on the ratio of 60% for
me, and 40% for you. I have all necessary legal documents that can be used
to back up any claim we may make.



I require your honest co-operation to enable us see this business through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the Law. Please get in touch with me by
email and send to me your telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss
further about the details of this transaction.



Best regards,

Eden Tay

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