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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: "ARCH JAMES" <j_arch@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: archjames1@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:22:21 -0400
Subject: PLEASE READ DONT DELETE

VERY CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Sir / Madam,

Please let this business proposal I am putting forward to you herein not be a
surprise to you. I know you will ponder on how I got your Contact and why you.

I got your email address while searching for a Business minded person who I
can transact a discreet business that I want to introduce herein to you.

Before I continue, I am Barrister Arch James Legal practitioner in the
United Kingdom.

I had a client Al Yadah Fayad (British Arab) Diseased who died in a Car
crash with his wife Rakiya Fayad and two children in the city of Manchester
in 2004. six years ago.

Before the death of Al Yadah and his family, he had an account with a Bank
here in the UK (To be disclosed when Due) with the amount of £12.4Million
(Twelve Million, four hundred thousand Great British Pound).

Al Yadah Fayad was a Gold Merchant who also invested much in Oil during the
Gulf War. He was an Arab millionaire. Originally from Kuwait.

Since his death, as the Family attorney, the Bank concern have instructed me
to present a next of kin to late Al Yadah as I am in the Position to know his
relatives because in the Banks record, Al Yadah’s next of kin is his Late wife
Rakiya. I have tried to locate his family members but to no avail and no one
has come forward to me that he or she is related to him.

As you may know, I cannot present my self because the Bank will not accept as
I am the family Attorney but who else I may present will be accepted.

At this Juncture, I have no option than to look for a Trust Worthy person to
present to the Bank so that the Bank can payout the £12.4million to him or
her. As I have nothing to gain leaving the money in the Bank.

Based on this, I decide to contact you so that I can present you to the Bank
and get the money pay out to you then we can share the money 50% for you, 40%
for me and 10% to cover any incidental expenses that you and me may incur in
the process of the money being transferred to your account.

Please this deal is a 100% risk free and simple but confidential. I will put
all the legal documents together for the fund to be transferred to your
account with no legal implications.

Please if this is acceptable to you, Kindly get back to me with your Full
Names, Telephone numbers, and Physical address but if you know that your Bank
account is not healthy enough to receive such fund, please you may turn me
down by not responding because we need someone who has a healthy Bank account
that receiving such money will not raise an eye brow.

Waiting to hear from you.

Thank you very much

Barrister Arch James Email: archjames1@gmail.com



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