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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: =?utf-8?q?jose=20agu?= <barrjose05@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: barrjose2@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 20:23:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: VERY URGENT


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: barrjose05@yahoo.com.ph

ATTN :Sir/Madam


It is obvious that this proposal will come to you as a

suprise.

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 JOSE AGU personal Attorney to the late Engr.Steve

Moore a

national of Isle of Man in UK, who used to work with

Shell Petroleum Development Company(SPDC) in Nigeria.

On the 21st of April 1996,my client,his wife And their three children

were

involved in a car accident along

Sagamu/Lagos Express Road.

Unfortunately they all lost

their lives in the event of the accident, Since then 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

tracehisrelatives

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,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 this huge deposits were

lodged.Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued

at

about $27million U.S

dollars(twenty seven million U.S.America

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 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 $27million U.Sdollarscan be paid to your account and then

you

and

me can share the money. 55%to

me and 40% 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 us see this deal through.


I guarantee 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 email to enable

usdiscuss further.

please get back to me from this email


barrjose2006@myway.com

Yours Faithfully,

Barrister JOSE AGU



- jose agu


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