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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: simon wilson <attorney_simonwilson1@yahoo.in>
Reply-To: barristersimonwilson56@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 23:08:09 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Groot Annemieke




Dear Groot Annemieke,

I am sure that the receipt of this mail will be of utmost blessing to you . However sorry to marvel you a bit and take some of your time in going through this unpredicted letter of entreaty for your forbearing and facilitation.

I wish to inform you i was the intimate and entrusted personal attorney to late Mr J.B. Groot ,whose life and that of his entire family were lapsed while on holidays in a holidays resort in Phuket Thailand on the 26th of December 2004 in the Tsunami natural disaster. My late client was a merchant in hygienic products via West African Coast tro Thailand as an import and export executive.

I have made several probes here to uncover any of my client’s extended/distant relatives, which resulted abortive. After these ineffectual exertions, I decided to search through, with his genealogical names which persuaded me to interact with you, to locate any member of his lineage therefore reason why i channelled this inquest to you. I have contacted you to facilitate in the fund transmittal of total valued at US$7.5 million (Seven million, Five hundred thousand usd dollars) that was entrusted in this bank by my late client , before it gets expropriate or declared non-functional by the bankers here in the country where this huge amount were retained.

The said bank has authorized me with official observations to provide the next of kin or have his account expropriated within the next fifteen official working days. Because i have been unable to make this relational ship linkage contact, i wish to seek your carte blanche to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the ditto pedigree's names, so that this fund can be paid to you.

So, on receipt of your positive reaction, we will then determine the sharing quota and modus vivid of the transfer. I have all the necessary credentials/ information and legal documents required to legally equipped your claim. My demands from you are your sincere willingness and motivated spirited efforts to enhance the ascendancy of this covenant. I hereby give you warranty that this covenant will be consummated with all total repute to all statutory pecking order that will protect you from any fissure of all existing charter.

(1)Your private email addressee:

(2)Your private Telephone/Fax numbers:

3)Your residence addressee:

I will forward the necessary documents to you once i hear from you. You can call me with this number as soon as you receive my mail for more oral clarification +229 968 23 528

Best regards.
Barrister Simon Wilson

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