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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: "Jean Albert" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <albertjean35@yahoo.in>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:37:18 +0100
Subject: I WANT YOU TO WORK WITH ME.

From: Attorney Jean ALBERT (Esq.)
Legal practitioner & public notary,
B.P. No. 1. Porto-Novo Benin republic
Email: Attorney.JeanAlbert@f-mail.net
Phone no: +229 664-188-54


Attention: Friend.

Please I urge your patients and little time to read this message carefully. I have a very beneficial business that I would like to transact with you; it involves the sum of €35,000,000.00 to be benefited between me and you. I am Barrister Jean ALBERT, from the Republic of Benin; I am the personal lawyer of late Enr. John Riess, a Citizen/National of your country. He was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of MAN OIL & GOLD LTD (Benin Rep), a crude oil and raw gold mining company situated here in Benin Republic.

My said late client deposited the sum of THIRTY FIVE MILLION EURO (€35, 000,000.00) in a bank here which he intended to invest in Telecommunication in this country and was negotiating with the government before he unfortunately died in a fatal auto crash with his entire family (His wife and entire three children, including his driver). The bank where he deposited the money has issued me mandate/ultimatum of a very short time as his lawyer to provide his beneficiary/ next of kin, to claim the money otherwise they will have no option than to frozen the account and confiscate the fund and channel it to national treasury as un-serviced and unclaimed bill. Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but all efforts proved abortive. After these several unsuccessful attempts to locate any of his family member or relative, I decided to search in the internet with his surname to see if I can locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. The bank is

Please I seek your consent to present you as the relative and beneficiary to my late client, so that the bank will release the money into your account as inheritance fund, then we share the money between us, 40-40 that is 40% for you and 40% for me, then we give the remaining 20% to the motherless babies homes and orphanages as charitable donation to help them. Be rest assured that your safety in this deal is guaranteed as there are practically no risks or danger involved in this event because I am his lawyer, so anybody that I present to the bank as his relative will automatically be accepted, besides I am here to defend and protect you. I know how to procure the necessary legal arrangement that can be used to back up the claim. Every other documents pertaining to my late client's deposit are with me, I shall release the documents to you as soon as you agree to work with me. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us achieve this transaction successfully. I guarantee that this will be executed un

Please after reading this proposal, if it does not interest you gently delete it and keep the secret within you. But if you are interested in working with me then I will need the following information from you in order to submit to the bank to enable them start the processing of the fund transfer into your bank account.

Your Full Name:
Gender:
Age:
Nationality:
Occupation:
Marital Status:
Address:
Home Tel:
Office Tel:
Mobile Number:
ID/Passport copy

Please feel free to contact or call me immediately for further action; it is a very simple and successful deal for our mutual benefit.

My Best Regards.
Barrister Jean ALBERT (Esq.)

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