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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Barr Ahmed Isa" <ahmedisa77@handbag.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:02:10 -0700
Subject: BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

ASSOCIATES LAW CHAMBERS
Office Address: 805 Law Building,
Maitima Abuja

Attention,

I am Barrister Ahmed Isa, the Personal Attorney to Mr. Williams Holloway, a British national, and an oil consultant who used
to work with Shell Petroleum Development Company in Nigeria. On the 21st of April 2000, my client, his wife and their three
children were involved in a car accident along Abuja / Lagos Express Road,unfortunately they all lost their lives in the
event of the accident. since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my client's extended
relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful, after these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over
the Internet to locate any member of his family but of no avail,hence I contacted you.

I contacted you to assist in repartrating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged,particularly,the Security where the
deceased had an account valued at about $9.5 million U.S dollars. Conseqently,the bank issued me a notice to provide the
next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days, since I have been unsuccesfull in
locating the relatives for over 2 years now.

I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued
at $26,500,000.00 million U.S dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money, 55% to me and 40%
to you, while 5% should be for expenses or tax as your government may require.
I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under
a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me by email to enable us discuss further.: ah_isa20@ureach.com

Best Regards.

Barrister Ahmed Isa.

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and your banking details.


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