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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 about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "james maroga" <jmaroga4@msn.com>
Reply-To: jmaroga7@o2.pl
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:21:45 +0000
Subject: OBVIOUS

FROM BARRISTER JACOB MAROGA CHAMBERS
LEGAL PRACTITIONER AND
HIGH COURT REPRESENTATIVE,
SUITE 64 PLAZA,
LAGOS -NIGERIA

Dear

It is obvious that this proposal will come to you as a surprise. This
is because we have not met before but I am inspired to sending you this
email by the huge fund transfer opportunity that will be of mutual
benefit to the two of us.

However, I am Barrister Jacob Maroga ,the personal Attorney to late Eng.
Steve Moore a national of Isle of Man in UK, who used to work with
Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Nigeria. My client and
his family had a plane crash acciden in the year 2000, my client lost his
life in the year 2002 and later the wife and three children died they could
not
Survive,You can see the links below.

http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/031500/usn_LA0703.001.shtml,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/672849.stm
I have made several enquiries to several Embassies 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 contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left
behind by my client; I can easily convince the bank with my legal
practice that you are the only surviving relation of my client. Otherwise
the
Estate he left behind will be confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
bank
where these huge deposits were lodged.

Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at
about $20million U.S dollars (twenty million U.S .dollars) Consequently
The Bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or
have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days.
I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over several
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 $20million U.S
dollars can be paid to your account and then you and me can share the money.
70% to me and 30% 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 cooperation to enable
use this deal through.

I guarantee you that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch
with me by my private email:jmaroga2@o2.pl to enable us discuss further
and Please get back to me with the following informations….

Your Full Name …….
Your Contact Address….
Your Private Phone Number……..
Your Fax Number…….

I will be expecting to hear from you soonest.

Yours Faithfully,

Barrister Jacob Maroga(Esq)


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