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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: "mrs-adi-zeid SALAMU ALAIKUM," <mrs-adi-zeid19@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: t.jchambers2001@fsmail.net
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:56:56 +0100
Subject: AS SALAAMU ALAIKUM, Ann Klerks van den Berg

AS SALAAMU ALAIKUM,
WARA-AMATULAH WAR-RAKATU.
BAR Rami Zee ESQ.
LEGAL ATTORNEY & SOLICITOR
FROM THE DESK OF DIALA ABI ZEID,
LONDON.\GREECE
Private email Address:t.jchambers2001@fsmail.net
office email Address jkchambers@fsmail.net
LONDON NUMBER+44-70-111-40-7-99

Dear sir\,mama

I am Barrister DIALA ABI ZEID (SAG).A personal attorney to my Late
client , a nationality of your country, who used to work with the Oil
Development Company in GREECE. as an oil field supervisor. On the 21st of
april 2006 my client,who went for an oil inspection was involve in pipe line
explosion.Few weeks ago his account officer in europe contacted me as his
personal solicitor to present his next of kin to come up and cliam 22 karat
gold worth 3.2m$ and the sum of $7.5m which was not yet credited in his
account in europe. In this regard, I decided to contact you because you have
the same last name with my late client,So i was urgently asked to locate
any member of his family. That is why i have contacted you to assist in
recovering the said amount before it will be too late.
However, as soon as you indecate intrest i will give you all it takes to
conclude this project, and my personal number will be given to you for
better communication.
I hope my plea will meet your kind approval.
Remian blessed.

Barrister DIALA ABI ZEID (Mrs).

office email Address jkchambers@fsmail.net
Best regard,
LEGAL ATTORNEY & SOLICITOR

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