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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: "daniel djuric" <danieldjuric01@msn.com>
Reply-To: danieldjuric@walla.com
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:22:31 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND IMPORTANT

Daniel Djuric SOLICITORS, ADVOCATES AND NOTARY PUBLIC
Plaza de las Cortes, 4; 28014 - Madrid
OUR REF: BDC/ES569/WE/67/2006

Hello Dear

I am Daniel Djuric an Attorney at Law, a national of Equatorial Guinea an
Island in Central Africa, presently in Spain.
Initially, I tried to contact you through normal letter posting but it
returned undelivered probably due to incomplete address; hence I decided to
contact you an email as the only option unexplored.
I am writing to notify you of the TESTAMENT of late Mr. Morris Thompson, an
American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska
Airlines, Flight 261 which crashed on January 31, 2000, including his wife
and daughter. You can read more on this if you visit these websites:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Our client (late Morris Thompson) before his death made a deposit of Six
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$6,500,000.00)
in Madrid, Spain in his effort to avoid the obligatory payment of 40% income
tax in the United States of America.
However, I was mandated by our team of professionals to search for the
relatives of late Morris Thompson regarding his deposit as the holding
bank wants him to come forward for the endorsement of the reinvestments
documents on interest accrued.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his Next of
Kin or relatives to come over to sign the reinvestment documents or
claim his deposit because the Bank cannot release these funds unless a
formal application is made which is in line with the Spanish law on
inheritance claim.
Regrettably, I learnt that his supposed Next of Kin, which could be his
spouse or his only daughter died along with him in the ugly Alaska airline
crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this huge deposit except me as
the personal lawyer attached to monitor his deposit. It is in this regard
that I and colleagues decided to solicit your assistance, by presenting you
as the next of kin to the deceased. We have agreed on the following
sharing ratios; 20% for your assistance and 80% for me and my colleagues..
NB: This transaction is very confidential and 100% risk free as I have a
copy of his LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT which I can alter to affix your
name as the TRUSTEE & EXECUTOR. This transaction shall be executed under
legitimate and legal procedures that will protect you from any
breach of the Law.
Therefore, do not hesitate to revert back to me, either via fax or email,
with the following details if my proposal interests you: Your full name and
address, your telephone and fax numbers. Also if you cannot work with this
proposal do let me know immediately to enable me search further as I
do not want to engage in multiple search going by the confidentiality of
this transaction.Please contact me on my alternative email
address:danieldjuric@walla.com
Best regards,
Daniel Djuric Esq



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