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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: tony_kashe@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:48:29 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?YOUR=20CONSENT?=

BARR.TONY KASHE (SEQ)
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ALTERNATIVE E-MAIL: barr_kashe@yahoo.com
TEL:-234-1-4745667
FAX:-234-1-75617
I WISH TO SEEK FOR YOUR CONSENT

Attn: Fred,

I am barrister.Tony Kashe (Esq) a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney
to Mr. Mark Fred, a national of your country, who use to work with shell
Development Company in Nigeria. Here in after shall be referred to as my
client. On the 21st of April 2002,my client, his wife and their three Children
were involved in a car accident along Sagbama express-road. All occupants
of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made several
enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives
this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful 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 property
left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable
by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the citi
trust finance & security company where the deceased had an account valued
at about $20.5million United States dollars has issued me a notice to provide
the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next fourteen
official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2years
now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued
at $20.5million dollars 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 legal documents
that can be used to back up any claim we may make.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. And I will like you to treat
this as most urgent so that we willreceive this money at this first quarter
of the Year. Please get in touch with me Immediately on my direct mobile
telephone number:234-1-4745667 or via my alternative e-mail address (barr_kashe@yahoo.com)

for more details.

Thanks for your co-orperations.
Best regards,
BARR.TONY KASHE ( ESQ ),




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