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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: "George Barnett (Esq)" <a6600cd@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ad6002cd@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:27:06 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: REMINDER ON OUR LEGAL ASSISTANCE

My dear friend,

I find it very surprising that you are yet to get back to our chambers
after the assurances we gave you that your inheritance claim fund of
$6,850,211 will be released to you from the bank with the full legal
assistance of our chambers once you have paid our legal fees. Currently
our legal fees as required by our chambers to represent you still stand at
$15,230 only. This is to help you secure all claims documents, stand as
your attorney and see to it that your fund is released to you. That is the
reason for the $15,230 fee as required and no more.

A SOLUTION: But if you have not contacted us because you have no money to
pay this fee and you still want our legal services, we can still work for
you and give you all legal assistances that might be needed to release
your $6,850,211 to your account from the bank. To do that, we will want
you to write to the bank requesting that a deduction of $15,230 be made
from your $6,850,211 inheritance claim fund with the bank and sent to our
chambers to be used to pay our legal fees. In this way, you do not need to
pay from your pocket, from let the bank deduct from the $6,850,211 and
send it to our chambers. We will gladly accept and legally represent you
to release the rest.

The bank will contact our chambers for verification of the said legal
representation and deduction of the said sum and our chambers will sign
all the legal guarantee needed for the said deduction and the $15,230 will
be released to us and then we will proceed to work for you as your legal
representatives to help make the final release of your $6,850,211 to you.

OUR REASON: Why our chambers will want the bank to release our legal fee
first from your account with them is so that our legal chamber can prove
to you that we can fully work for you for the total release of your total
sum of $6,850,211 inheritance claim fund and make the bank to release the
rest, since our legal fee has already been paid for. We will not charge
you any other legal fees once the bank has transferred the $15,230 into
our account and payment confirmed.

Once the bank has granted your request and sent the money to our chambers,
we will proceed to secure the other approval and wire transfer of the
balance of $6,834,981 to you with no further delays or charges. We are
competent and have been able to work for clients in the past who have
gotten their full money released to them after the bank has first paid our
chambers our legal charges by deducting it from your account with them.
For more information, please call me on (+44) 7031900020 (+44) 7031906652
or email me back after you have heard from the bank requesting for a
deduction of $15,230 from your account with them.

Thank you,
George Barnett (Esq)
Principal Partner,
Barnett & Carter Legals,
London England
(+44) 7031900020
(+44) 7031906652

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