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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: franchi1961@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 01:41:18 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?NEXT=20OF=20KIN?=

Dear Sir,

I am Barrister Francis Chibuzor, the Personal Attorney
to Mr.Anthony Miguel,a national of your country ,who
was an oil consultant/contractor with the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC).

On the 21st of April 2003, my client,his wife and their
three children were involved in a car accident along
Sagamu/Lagos Express Road,unfortunately they all lost
their lives in the event of the accident,since then I
have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate
any of my client's extended relatives, this has also
proved unsuccessful, after these several unsuccessful
attempts,I decided to trace his relatives over the
Internet to locate any member of his family but of no
avail, hence I contacted you.

I contacted you to assist in repartrating the money and
property left behind by my client before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where
this huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the Bank
where the deceased had an account valued at about $15
million U.S dollars(Fifteen million us dollars).
Consequently, the bank issued me a notice to provide the
next of kin or have the account confiscated within the
next ten official working days, since I have been
unsuccesful in locating the relatives for over 2 years
now.

I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin
of the deceased since you are from the same country so
that the proceeds of this account valued at $15million
U.S dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can
share the money, 50% to me and 45% to you,while 5%
should be for expenses or tax as your government may
require. I have all necessary legal documents that can
be used to back up any claim we may make.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us
see this 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 by private email
frchi2004@yahoo.fr to enable us discuss
further.

Yours Faithfully.
Barrister Francis Chibuzor

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