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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 Waziri Mohammed {Esq}" <wazmoh22@handbag.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 20:31:55 -0800
Subject: INVESTMENT RELATIONSHIP

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

Sir,



I am Barr Waziri Mohammed 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 an auto 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 their 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 company 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% would 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.:assolawchs@yahoo.com

Best Regards.
Barr Waziri Mohammed

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