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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: =?gb2312?q?jones=20harrisson?= <hjoneschamberz@yahoo.com.cn>
Reply-To: hjoneschambers@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:47:57 +0800 (CST)
Subject: MY DEAR FRIEND


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Dear Friend,


I am Barrister Harrisson Jones a solicitor at law.



I am the personal attorney to a MAN a National of your country, who was an oil contractor/merchant here in London. Here in after shall be referred to as

my client.On the recent bomb blast in london, my client, his wife And their only son were involved unfortunately lost their lives.



Since 2 days now I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my client's extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confisicated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged.



I have been unsuccesfull locating the relative for over 2 days now. I seek your

consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at $15 million dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money.60% to me and 40% to you.

We shall secure all the necessary legal 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 business 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.



Best regards,


BARRISTER HARRISSON JONES.

- jones harrisson


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