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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: "PERRY EMMS ROBERT" <robertperry_emms@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: perry_emms2001@yahoo.co.in
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 03:35:09 -0700
Subject: Attention:

FROM THE DESK OF
BARRISTER PERRY EMMS ROBERT
LEGAL PRACTITIONER
# 12 ISAAC JOHN STREET IKEJA, LAGOS NIGERIA.

Attention: Very Urgent

Dear Sir,

I crave your indulgience for the unsolicited nature
of
this letter, it was borne out of desperation and
current
development. After going through your profile, i
became
convinced that you could be trusted to carry out this
transaction with me please bear with me. I am
Barrister
Perry Emms Robert, a solicitor at law, i am a South
African but presently residing in Nigeria, I was the
Personal attorney to a late Client Late James and
whom
Herein after shall be referred to as my CLIENT, I
have an
urgent and-ery confidential business proposition for
you.
On April 6, 1996, my late CLIENT an Oil
consultant/contractor with the Nigerian National
Petroleum
Corporation made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for
some
months, valued at US$55,500,000.00 (Fifty Five
Million
Five hundred Thousand Dollars only) in a Bank Branch.
Upon
maturity, the Bank sent a routine notification to his
forwarding address but got no reply. After a month,
they
sent a reminder but still got no response and finally
they
contacted me as his Personal attorney and i
discovered
from his contract employers, the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation that my CLIENT on 1st February
1997
died in a plane crash on air senegal on aircraft Name
Hawker Siddeley HS-748.

This crash happened in Tambacoumba, Senegal, Africa
and
the registration number of the aircraft is 6AV-AEO,
and
since his untimely death the funds has been dormant
in his
account with the Bank without any claim of the fund,
On
further investigation, I found out that he died
without
making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of
kin
was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation
and
discovered that my CLIENT did not declare any Next of
kin
or relations in all his official documents, including
his
Bank Deposit paperwork in my possession .

This sum of US$55,500,000.00 has been carefully
placed on
the dormant list of the bank for safe-keeping. No one
will
ever come forward to claim it. According to Nigerian
Law,at the expiration of 8 (eight) years, the money
will
revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if
nobody applies to claim the fund.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a

Foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to my late
CLIENT
as to claim the money. Am writing you because as his
Personal attorney i can not claim the fund without
raising
some questions from the Bank and moreover you share
the
same name. I want to present you as the next of kin
to my
late CLIENT, the owner of the account so you can be
able
to claim them with my assistance as his personal
attorney.
This i will make sure that the fruits of this old
man's
labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt
Nigeria
Government Officials. The process is simple. All that
is
expected of you is to provide me with the following
immediately:

Your full Names. Address. Age
Occupation.
Private Phone and Fax Number.

With This information i will prepare the necessary
documents which will put you in place as the next of
Kin
to my late CLIENT, this is very simple with my help
and
capacity as an Attorney.

This money will be transferred into your account for
us to
share in the ratio of 45% for me and 45% for you and
5%
will take care of all expenses incured on both side,
while
the balance 5% will go to some charity homes. There
is no
risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction
will
be done by me as the Attorney and this will guarantee
the
successful execution of this transaction.

If you are interested, please reply immediately and
strictly to my private email address/mail box:
perry_emms2001@yahoo.co.in

Upon the receipt of your response, I shall then
provide
you with more details and relevant documents that
will
help you understand the transaction.
Please observe with utmost confidentiality, and be
rest
assured that this transaction would be most
profitable for
both parties. Please reply immediately as time is of
great
importance to this transaction.

Note: please try and contact me urgently so that we
can
discuss more on this issue or better still let me
have
your private phone number so i can call you.

Hoping to hear from you.

Best Regards,

BARRISTER PERRY EMMS ROBERT


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