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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: barrister_ubani@tiscali.it
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:15:30 +0100
Subject: REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE

From:Barrister IKENNA UBANI.
OF CHUKWU AND UBANI CHAMBERS.
20 Allen Avenue Ikeja
Lagos Nigeria.

Attn:Haiti,

REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE.

I am Barrister Ikenna Ubani a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorneyto
Mr.John C Haiti a Nationality of your
country, who used to work with the Shell Petroleum Development
Company in Nigeria. Here in after shallbe referred to as my client.On the
21st of April 2001, my client, his wifeand their children were involved
in a car accident along Sagama express-road.

All the occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives.Since
thenI have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
clientsextended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful.After these

severalunsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the

Internet.To locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.I have
contacted
you to assist in repatriating the money and properties left behind bymy
client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by thebank
where these huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, GUARANTY TRUST
BANK here in NIGERIA.Were the deceased has an account valued at about FIVE
MILLION,THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$5.322M)
has issuedme a notice to provide the NEXT OF KIN or have the account confiscated
withinthe next few weeks now.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for more than
twoyears now. I seek your consent to present you as the NEXT OF KIN of thedeceased
since you have the same last name with my client, so thatthe proceedsof
the account valued at US$5.322M) can be paid to you and then you and me
can share the money 60% to me and 40% to you. I have all necessary legaldocuments
that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I requirefrom you
is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through.Iguarantee
you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangementthat will protect
you and me from any breach of the law. Please I will wantyou to send to
me your telephone and fax numbers for easy communication,and
also to have a brief discussion in regards to this transaction.

Do send your reply on my email address.

Best regards,

Barrister Ikenna ubani esq.

Please always contact me on my confidential email address,
{barristerubanichambers@yahoo.com}and
as soon as I receive your response I shall be forwading to you further
detailsconcerning this transaction.







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