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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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Fraud email example:

From: "clement" <ibethelaw@myway.com>
Reply-To: clement_associates1@myway.com
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:10:05 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE


URGENT RESPONSEAttn:Sir,I am Barrister CLEMENT IBE and also the Personal Attorney to Mr. PETERSON ELDER, a national of your country, who used to work with shell Development company in Nigeria. Few years ago my client with his wife and three children were among of the victim of KENYA AIRWAYS BUS (A310-300) FLIGHT KQ430 PLANE CRASH.This was sad news to the hearing of any human being and 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 on trust to assist me in receiving the money left behind by my client before the bank he has an account with get the money confiscated or declared his money as unclaimed fund following the bank policy. Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at
about 20.5 million dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin of my client or have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days. Since i have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the transfer of this money valued at $20.5 million dollars can be paid to you as his next of kin for our mutual benefit.The sharing percentage is as follow if only you will be faithful and honest to assist me, 30% for your assistance as next of kin, 65% to me and remaining 5% should be for expenses or tax as your government may require. All necessary legal documents that will back up your claim of this money will be secured by an attorney on your behalf. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee you that this business 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 steps to follow.PHONE NUMBER: 234-802-925-4393E-MAIL:clement_associates1@myway.comBARRISTER CLEMENT IBE

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