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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: "justin lorenzo" <julo2004@msn.com>
Reply-To: julo012@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:06:08 +0000
Subject: Proposal

Julo Buck Esq.
Julo Buck and Associates
5 castle St,
Dover
CT15 1PT
England
jbsolicitors@uku.co.uk
+44-703-195-6410

Dear Friend,
Compliments, and do please accept my highest regards and Esteem. This
proposal might come to you as a surprise due to the urgent need of a
reliable foreigner, I therefore deem it necessary to contact you. I am
Barrister Julo Buck, a solicitor at Law and the personal attorney to
late Mr. Stelios Kyradae, a Greek-Cyproit residing here in Dover-
England,hereinafter shall be refered to as my client.
On the 14th of Aug. 2005, my client, his wife and their only two
children who were actually on thier way back from Cyprus enroute Prague
were involved in the Boeing 737, Helios Airways Flight 522 air disaster.
Unfortunately, my client; Mr. Kyradae and his entire family died in the
aircrash that occurred.


Ever since this tragic and traumatic events, I have made frantic
efforts to establish contacts with his relatives, but could not
succeed. Due to the fact that considering the nature of my clients
business dealings, He never presented any name on Documentation as his
possible next of kin. I am therefore with all sense of humility decided to
make
contact with you in order to assit in claiming and retrieving the money
left behind by my client before the credit house know of his demise and
probably get the funds confiscated or even decleared it unserviceable
by the finance and credit institution where these funds were deposited.
I solicit your urgent assistance and co-operation as a foreigner for
easy passage of the funds to your designated Bank account.


Mr. Kyradae was a successful Businessman and was involved in cash
transactions due to the nature of his business. He was chiefly engaged
in the shipping of Raw Gold and Diamond from rich equatorial belt of
central and southern African Countries to Europe, North America, south
America and other parts of the world.


The amount of money kept in the custody of the finance and credit house
is USD 25.5 million Dollars only. Since I have been unable to locate
his relatives after all my frantic efforts, I am therefore compelled by
this circumstances to seek your consent to present you sir, with my
position as his legal advicer as his next of kin or business associate
of the deceased so as to enable you receive and collect the above funds.
All other further informations to that effect at my disposal will be
made available to you upon your consent and the acceptance of the
project.


The funds when retrieved and successfully secured will be shared thus:
- myself, the attorney 40%, yourself the presented next of kin 30%,
while 20% will go to Charity and possibly the victims of the Hurricane
Katrina and the Asian Tsunami through you,in line with my clients
belief and support for Charity as a great philantropist during his life
time. The balance of 10% will be for


contingency expenses to be incured during the process by both parties.
I assure you the fullest and absolute co-operation and a hitch free
operation in this regards. I equally guarranttee you total protection
against any breach of the law in line with my legal profession.
You are indeed very free to ask questions you deem necessary for
further clarifications, and please endeavour to always keep secret all
informations concering this transaction.


Your most urgent response will be highly appreciated through my private
email: julobuck01@sify.com or jubuck012@yahoo.com, in order to avoid my
making further contacts.

Regards.
Barrister Julo Buck.



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