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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: "Roland Adebo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barrolandebo@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 00:42:44 -0700
Subject: For your urgent attention.

Roland Adebo, Law chambers
Attorney at Law
Cotonou, Republic of Benin.

Greetings my friend,

I humbly crave your indulgence in sending you this mail, and if the content does not meet with your
personal and business ethics, I wish to apologize in advance. I got your email contact via my search
on the internet. My name is Barrister Roland Adebo, Esq. I am the personal attorney to a late national
of your country who was into gold business here in Republic of Benin. On the 30th October 2012,
my client was involved in a car accident here and unfortunately lost his life in the event of the crash.
Since then I have tried to locate any of his relative but to no avail and the bank here where the deceased
had the sum of US$7.5Million in his account has now issued me a notice to provide his next of kin within
the next one month or they will confiscate the funds. So, I seek your consent to present you as the next
of kin to my late client since you answer same surname and from the same country so that the funds will
be transferred to you as the beneficiary, then you and I will share the funds, instead of allowing bank to
confiscate it. After the successful transfer of funds to your bank account as planned, we will share the
funds accordingly 50% for me and 50% to you.

So, kindly get back to me via this email: barolandebo@gmail.com and provide me with your information
for the documentation process:
1. YOUR FULL NAMES:
2. YOUR ADDRESS:
3. YOUR TELEPHONE #:
4. YOUR AGE:
5. YOUR OCCUPATION:

Await your reply accordingly.

Yours Sincerely,
Roland Adebo

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