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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: "Demola Joseph Williams" <demola6@msn.com>
Reply-To: demolajwilliams@yahoo.ca
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:43:26 +0000
Subject: I WILL DULY APPRECIATE YOUR URGENT PARTNERSHIP.

Barrister Demola J. Williams & Associate
27 & 29 Akintola Close
Off-Waterside Road
Victoria-Island, Lagos
Nigeria
Date: Saturday, January 13TH, 2006.

>From The Humble Desk of;
Demola Joseph Williams
Legal Solicitor To,
Dr. Robert King

Deseased In Need of solicitous Next-of-Kin.

Attn: Dear King,

I am Barrister Demola J. Williams, a confidant and confile lawyer of Dr.
Robert King. I was called to the Nigeria Bar Association NBA, on 5th Sept,
1968.

Meanwhile, Dr. Robert King, is a national of your country, and he had been
my client over twelve years before his abrupt death, which came to been
after a briefied illness as a result of cancer.
Dr. Robert King died on 28th July, 2003 and before his abrupt death, he was
a professional engineer. And until his abrupt death was a senior staff in
shell oil Nigeria limited. He was also a senior contractor with the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation NNPC, Nigerian Ports Authority NPA, and
Nigerian Shipping Council NSC, but to mention few.
Dr. Robert King was a God fearing person, committed and dedicated to the
things of God, and who used most of his time to propagate the ministry of
God and the Kingdom to which made him to became trusted and reliable in
Nigeria Industry Sector. He moreorless lived his life before he was called
to the Ghost as a minister of God. Besides, his wife died on 13th September,
2000 as a result of bullet injury he sustained when the robbers visited
their Lagos residence at Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria after the husband's Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation Contract award woth of $31.46million
usdollars, which was been announced on Nigeria Television Authority, NTA 2,
Channel. He was been rushed to the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital,
Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria and died three days after she was been hospitalized.

However, by the virtue of the power bestowed on me as the deseased confidant
lawyer with sustainable and substantial proof in which the deseased
entrusted to my knowledge which contains as well his enormous businesses and
numerous accounts information. I was conceded logically and legally as a
lawyer that the deseased had an account with a Bank worth $23.7million
united states dollars.

Additionally, after the abrupt death of Dr. Robert King, I visited the bank
and the bank advised that I should come forward to the Bank with the
deseased next-of-kin. I must assure you that since the inception of the Bank
advised for the deseased next-of-kin to approach the Bank for the deseased
fund to be released into his or her safe designated bank account, I had
spent enormously looking for any of the deseased family member's either
relations, relatives or even ex-wife as the case may be, but all my efforts
to that regard was absolutely abortive.

And from real and genuine inside source in the Bank, I was categorically
briefied about a conspiracy consitituting by the Bank over the deseased
money because since after the death of Dr. Robert King they haven't seen any
person approach to the bank as the deceased contact as the deseased
next-of-kin. And I logically belived by the virtue of my profession that the
Bank won't behave anything against the ruling law in banking. And to that
effect, I've issued an instruction to the Bank General Manager that if any
act of human right violiation is execise to the deseased money, I will
legally call the Bank to court for committing criminal offense.

And at this point, I call for your hands of co-operation to front with me as
the deseased
next-of-kin for an immediate claim of this funds into your designated bank
account to avoid the bank from directing your late brother, Dr. Robert King
had earned funds to government reserve account as an unclaimed inheritance
funds. And according to your late brother mapped out decision, you and me
will be in position to share 90% of the total sum equally, and map-out 5%
for the orphanage home in each both party's country respectively, while 5%
will be used to compensate every financial committement we may legally incur
at the process of having this funds smoothly and successfully transferred
into your account. And above all, we need to act fast to prevent the
presiding bank from referring your late brother's funds, which stand now as
your claim to government account as an unclaimed inheritance funds.

Finally, I would appreciate your urgent acknowledgement of this immediate
need of your co-operation attached with your detailed information's
prescribed accordingly stipulated below;
Your full name and address
Your contact address
Your tel, cell and fax numbers
Your age, Your sex, Your occupation.

I thank you so much for your utmost reasoning, understanding and
co-operation, while i hope hearing from you ASAP.

I wait for your swift co-operative response.

Yours truly,

Demola Joseph Williams (Esq)


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