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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 Smith Agumba" <barrsmithlawfirm8@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: barrsmith_agumba@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:38:00 +0000
Subject: Next of Kin Needed

Barrister Smith Agumba & Associates
24 Awolowo Plaza Way,Ikoyi
Private Email box:{barrsmith_agumba@yahoo.com}

Dear Friend ,

I am Smith Agumba, a Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to Late
Engr.Thomas Williams , a national of your country,who used to work with
Zenon Development Oil company in Nigeria. My client, his wife And their
three children were involved in the explosion in Lagos, Nigeria, on January
27, 2002 which, claimed many lives and property. Unfortunately, my client
and the family lost their lives in that disaster that needed not to have
happened.

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 trace his relatives over the
Internet, to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I
contacted you.

I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the money that belong to my
client before they get confisicated or declared unserviceable by the bank
where this huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the Bank where the
deceased had an account valued at about $14.5 million dollars has issued me
a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confisicated within
the next 14 official working days.

Since i have been unsuccesful in locating the the relatives for over 4years
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 $14.5 Million dollars can be
paid to you and then you and me can share the money. 50% to me and 45% to
you, while 5% should be rembursement of incidental expenses that may incure
during the process of the transactionor tax as your government may require,
I will secure certificate of deposit and other relevant approvals documents
that can be used to back up any claim we may make.All I require is your
honest cooperation 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
my email to enable us discuss further.Please contact me through my private.
{barrsmith_agumba@yahoo.com}

Here is the 2 website of the bomb explosion below for your view: -

http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/020130Lagos3/index_txt.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm


Looking forward to hear from you soonest.

Best regards,
Barrister Smith Agumba.

NB:Pls include to me your private telphone and fax number in your response.


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