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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: Alfred Walter <ad4951133@gmail.com>
Reply-To: walteralfred636@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2022 21:33:45 -0800
Subject: Good Day,

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Good Day,

I am Barrister Alfred Walter living at 1647 Paisley Rd W, Glasgow G52
3QT, UK, a Solicitor and the Personal attorney to Engr, Jackman
Olivier, dual citizen of France and Britain, a national of France, who
died in a Plane crash on Monday 2nd September 1998 GMT 14:22 UK while
they were flying from New York to Geneva. You can see the news or
report on the site.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

My client his wife and three children lost their lives on that plane
crash, I made several enquiries to the embassy to locate any of my
clients extended relatives, and this has proved unsuccessful then I
decided to trace his relatives over the internet just to locate any
member of his family but to no avail.

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money that belonged
to my late client before they get confiscated or declared as
serviceable by the bank where this huge deposit were lodged.
Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at
about £ 17 Million British Pound advised that UK FINANCIAL AUTHORITY
hereby issued a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account
confiscated within the next five working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3
years now I have decided to seek your consent to present you as the
next of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account
valued at £ 17 Million British Pound can be paid to you and then we
can share the money 50% to me and 45% to you while 5% will be mapped
out for any expenses during the process as your government may
require, all I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see
the deal 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 strictly.

Best regards.

Alfred Walter Esq.

principle Attorney.

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