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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: "advocatepartners" <advocatepartners_01@centrum.cz>
Date:
Subject: PLEASE CONFIRM MY BUSINESS PROPOSAL


Dear Sir,
I hope this meets you in good health. My name is
Christiansen Grahams a legal practitioner and Attorney
to late Mr. Igor Shaposhnikov who died in the plane crash on March 9th, 2000.
My late client was an influential wealthy businessman,
a Russian Contractor, a Russian big time Oil dealer
and the Principal owner of Oil Alliance Company and he
left behind a deposit of Four Million, Two Hundred
Thousand British Pound (£4,200,000.00 PB) as a
consignment owned by his foreign business partner.

Since he is dead and no more and no trace to any of

his relatives living or dead after all the efforts I
have made in the past few years, I want you to stand
as my late client's next of kin/beneficiary in London
to claim the cash deposit.

I have employed every means possible to locate any of
my client's extended relatives (next of kin) but this
exercise has proved unsuccessful until now.
After the death of my client the manager of the
company have made several contacts to me, as his
Attorney to provide his next of kin who should inherit
the fund.

The Directors of his (Mr. Igor Shaposhnikov ) company
adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his
next of kin for the payment of this money or forfeit
the money to the company. The company had planned to
invoke a clause in the property Act, to confiscate the
funds after the expiration of a period given to me.
Despairing and at the point of desperation, I came
across your name and contact, while trying to locate
documentation's regarding possible relatives of my
client.
 Convinced that you may be able to act in locus
for my late client as his next of kin, I therefore,
decided to contact you with these facts before me
because of the status quo. By virtue of my brief and
my closeness to the deceased, I am very much aware of
my client's financial standing, which he operated here
in London.

I have reasoned very professionally and I felt it
would be legally proper to present you as the next of
kin of my deceased client and the sole beneficiary of
the fund The rest is between you and I
and with my guide we can have you claim this cash
consignment by standing as the next of kin to my late
client, once this is done we shall both share the
funds at the ratio of 50% to me and 50% to you.

I shall assemble all the necessary Legal Documents
that will be used to back up our claim. All I require
is your honest cooperation 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 and
reply this letter as soon as possible. Pls send your reply to
my confidential Email box:barrister_christiansen05@dbzmail.com

I will give you more details as soon as I received
your urgent reply. Once I receive
it, I will call you.

Best Regards,
Christiansen Grahams
Advocate Partners, London.
Email: barrister_christiansen05@dbzmail.com



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