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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: Barrister Antonio Ricor <barristerantonioricor@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Barrister Antonio Ricor <barristerantonior@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 02:23:07 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Urgent response needed.


Hello Dear,

This letter must come to you as a surprise, but i believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. I am pleased to get across to
you for a very urgent and profitable business proposal; I got your e-mail address through an internet web directory and decided to contact you and
ask for your assistance in this urgent matter, requiring trust and confidentiality.

Let me start first by introducing myself properly to you. It may surprise you receiving this letter from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us. My
name is Barrister Antonio Ricor Esq. (Spanish Lawyer and Doctor in Law) a personal Attorney to Late Engineer
Frank Lupton, an American expatriate engineer who has worked with the Mining and Smelting Company (Asturiana de Zinc S.A. Spain).

My purpose of
contacting you is for you to help me to secure his funds deposited with Spanish Bank before he died, to avoid it being confiscated or declared as unclaimed by the Bank. The fund value is $9.500, 000.00 (Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars), this money was deposited by my late client before he passed away, who died along with his entire family in the plane crash On {Air France 447 crash} that took the lives of 228 passengers and crew on June 1, 2009.which you can confirm by yourself. He left the fund with no Will and up till today his relatives remained unknown.

As his personal attorney, the bank has issued me a final notice to contact his relative’s or his next of kin or else the money will be declared as unclaimed and it will be diverted to the Government’s Account. So far all my efforts to get a hold of someone related to my late client have been unsuccessful. Now, I have decided to look for A responsible Citizen to present him
or her to the bank. I have now contacted you and I am actually asking for your consent to present you to the bank as my client’s Next of Kin and the money can be transferred to your account. All the legal documents to back up this claim as my client's next of Kin, I shall provide them. What I need from you is your full Confidentiality.

I wish to point out that I want 20% of this money to be shared among the Charity Organizations, while the remaining 80% is shared equally between us. This transaction is entirely risk free. I will use my position as the client’s personal attorney to guarantee the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please contact me via   Tel: +34-631-356-912, upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand more in this transaction.

The intended transaction will be processed under legitimacy,
which will protect me and you from any violation of law. Please kindly get back to me with your interest for further explanations and better understanding.

Kindest Regards,

Barrister Antonio Ricor.
Address: Av. Eusebio Sempere Nº11, Alicante 03003 Spain.

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