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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: david_louis13@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 06:27:28 -0500
Subject: HELLO

Hello ,

This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it be
treated
as such. I am Barrister David Louis, a solicitor at law and the
personal
Attorney/sole executor to the late client ,herein after referred to
as 'my
client' who worked as an independent oil magnate in my country and
died in
a car crash with his immediate family on the 4th of oct,2006. Since the
death of my client in Oct, 2006, I have written several letters to the
embassy with intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom
shall be
claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such
efforts have been to no avail.

More so, I have received an official letters in the last few weeks
suggesting a likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned
personal
assets in line with existing laws by the bank in which my client
deposited
the sum of $35.8 million US Dollar. On this note I decided to search
for a
credible and trustworthy person and finding that you bear a similar
last
name, I was urged to contact you, that I may with your consent, present
you to the "trustee" bank as my late client's surviving family
member so
as to enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a
next of
kin of my client.

I find this possible for the fuller reasons that you bear a similar
last
name with my client making it a lot easier for you to put up a claim in
that capacity. I propose that 50% of the net sum will accrue to you
at the
conclusion of this transaction, in so far as I do not incur further
expenses. Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund,
you need, first to contact me via signifying your interest and as
soon as
I obtain your confidence, I will immediately appraise you with the
complete details as well as fax you the documents, with which you
are to
proceed and I shall direct on how to put up an application to the bank.
However, you will have to accent to an express agreement which I will
forward to you in order to bind us in this transaction. Upon the
receipt
of a favorable response from you, I will send you by fax or E-mail the
next step to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
proposal is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears
as the
required arrangements have been made for the completion of this
transfer.
Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this.

I look forward to your prompt compliance, very important. Please
make sure you reply me via this email:david_louis13@yahoo.com.hk

David Louis (Esq.)
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