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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: Alan Boyle <alan.boyle640@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 22:11:38 +0200
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOU URGENT REPLY

54 Doughty Street
London, WC1N 2LS
DX: 223 Chancery Lane.
Tel: +44-793-700-8937
Fax: 44-87-1247-2209.


Attn: Sir / Madam,

I am the personal attorney to Robert Fitzpatrick, an American who was a
consultant with Shell UK LTD here in London. Unfortunately my client lost
his life on Boeing Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic
Ocean on October 31st, 1999 and left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin.

All efforts by me to trace his Next of Kin proved abortive because he did
not make any will prior to his death. Since then I have made several
inquiries to locate any of my late clients extended relatives and this has
proved unsuccessful.

I seek for your assistance in claiming the money left behind by my client
before they get confiscated or declared unclaimed by the security company
where this huge deposit was deposited. Particularly, the finance company
where the deceased had the said fund valued at USD 11 Million dollars has
issued me a notice to provide the next of kin.

Consequent upon this, my idea is that we can have a deal/agreement and I am
going to do this legally with your name as the bonafide beneficiary of the
amount in question as I have all legal document to back our claim. Note
that 40% of this money will be for you, in respect to the provision of a
foreign account and 50% for me, 10% will be used for the reimbursement of
any expenditure we may incur in the cause of the transaction.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law, all I need from you is your
utmost collaboration and sincerity for us to thrive in this deal.

Please Contact me via this email address edwardree.barr@gmail.com if you
are ready to assist me.

Yours Sincerely,

Edward Rees (Esq).

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