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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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Fraud email example:

From: EMMANUEL BRIGGS <ebribarclaysbank@aim.com>
Reply-To: ebriggs0147@qatar.io
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:36:42 +0200
Subject: PARTNERSHIP FOR INHERITANCE FUND

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SUBJECT: SEEKING PARTNERSHIP FOR INHERITANCE FUND OF FOUR MILLION
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUND STERLING.

Dearest Friend,
My name is Emmanuel Briggs, I am a staff of BARCLAYS BANK in
LONDON-UNITED KINGDOM. I work in the operations dept where I serve as
account officer to numerous customers.I am contacting you of a
business transfer,of a huge sum of money from a deceased account the
amount of GBP£4.3Million(Four Million Three Hundred Thousand Great
British Pounds Sterling)though I know that a transaction of this
magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that every documents / legal paper work that will state
you the original next of kin and bring about the success of this
transaction would be provided, and all will be well at the end of the
day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this
transaction.The deceased person who died Mr Abdou Elzanaty died in a
plane crash along with his wife and two children in an Egyptian
airline with other passengers on board was an American Oil
consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation. You
can confirm his death from the BBC WORLD NEWS published Website below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm

The board of directors of BARCLAYS BANK,mandated me as the account
officer to the decease to look for any known relation of Mr. Abdou
Elzanaty,since after his death.However all my efforts traces was
abortive.The circumstances surrounding the death of the depositor with
no known nominated successor has made it difficult to locate anyone
who is directly related to the deceased.The strategy is to use my
position as his account officer to present you as a next of Kin and
beneficiary of the time deposit for capitalization to your account and
share this money between ourselves and also donate 10% to
HAITI,Charity and the tsunami victims and also i like to invest part
of my share into real estate and buying of properties .If this
proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me
immediately via this my direct email(ebriggs0147@qatar.io). Above
all,please handle this deal with maturity and absolute confidentiality
if you found it worthy to be benefited reply me but if not, notify me
on time and better still keep it top secret due to the nature.PLEASE
REPLY WITH YOUR FULL NAMES,ADDRESS,DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER AND SCAN
COPY OF YOUR RECENT PICTURE.

Thanks and God bless you for your anticipated co-operation.

Yours truly,
Emmanuel Briggs

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