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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: Tim Osborn <webdesk7-----011@att.net>
Reply-To: timosborn1@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:02:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: LATE MR. RONALD STEWART'S PHILANTHROPIC FUND



BARRISTER TIM OSBORN'S LAW CHAMBERS

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS AND PRIVATE LAWYER

111 CRAVEN HILL GARDEN

LONDON, W1F 8GJ

UNITED KINGDOM

PHONE +447024083307

Email:tim_osborn@osbornsolicitors.com



LATE MR. RONALD STEWART'S PHILANTHROPIC FUND



My name is Barrister.Tim Osborn; I am a native of England, and president in the Chambers Tim Osborn Law Chambers here in London United Kingdom. I am a legal practitioner, called to the U.K Bar in 1986. I used to be the personal Attorney to late Mr. Ronald Stewart.



Mr. Ronald Stewart was a great philanthropist before death; before he died, he made a philanthropic will of Eight Million Dollars (US$8,000,000.00) which was meant to be donated to charity organizations in Africa to support African children living with HIV/AIDS.



We conducted an electronic email random draw in our chambers today, and your email address was picked as the beneficiary to this philanthropic fund of $8m.



It is our great desire to claim this fund so that it can be used for the purpose for which it is meant, because the bank where the money is currently deposited has instructed that we produce the beneficiary of this fund within 14 working days else the money will be confiscated to the Government's treasury as unclaimed funds.



You have to get back to me immediately so that we can begin the process of transferring the fund into any of your designated bank accounts. As soon as I receive your reply message I shall give you further information on the process.



With your full co-operation, this transaction shall be concluded within 7 days, and after the funds have been transferred into your account, you shall keep 30% of the money ($2.4m) to yourself as the beneficiary, donate 30% to any Charity Organization of your choice, while the balance of 40% comes to me as the attorney in this transaction.



Also, this transaction is highly confidential and should remain as such until the funds must have been transferred into your account, so do not discuss this transaction with ANYBODY. I wait to hear back from you immediately, so that I can give you all the necessary information needed to proceed, and don't forget to include your name, location and phone numbers in your response.



Private Email:tim_osborn@osbornsolicitors.com



Barrister Tim Osborn(Esq..)



Copyright ? 2011 Tim Osborn Law Chambers, all rights reserved.

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