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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: "Daniel Mawule" <danmawule@msn.com>
Reply-To: damaconsultant_tg@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:43:02 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION : Feilen

From:Barrister Daniel Mawule (Esq)
Deko&Associate
W475575 Siege/Agence,
Rue Du Governeur,
Bayolo 1 BP 1220,
Lome-Togo



MUTUAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL


Dear ,

Please, do not be offended if this message comes to you as a surprise.
I am supposed to have sort your consent and approval before e-mailing this
proposal.I will also beg for your forgiveness if it might irritate you and
for me writing through this channel. It is as a result of the importance and
urgency of the business. Which ever way you may look at it, let it please
you to respond quickly either negatively or positively.

I am Barrister Daniel Mawule, personal attorney to Mr.F.R.Feilen,a national
of supposedly your country? who used to work with Shell Development Company
in Lome Togo and who was also instrumental to the construction of the
International Cement Company,Lome. Hereinafter shall be referred to as my
client for over ten years.

On the 21st of October, 1999, my client, his wife and their only daughter,
were involved in a car accident along Nouvissi express Road on holidays to
Karra while driving their personal car.
Unfortunately, all occupants of the vehicle lost their lives. As his lawyer,
I was contacted and all necessary burial arrangements were made and the
remains of the family buried in the public cementary.Since then I have made
several enquiries to the Swedish embassy here and others to locate any of my
clients either blood families or the extended relations. My concerted search
proved abbortive.

After these several unsuccessful attempts and as the last resort,I decided
to track his last name over the Internet, to see if I will be lucky to
locate any member of his family, hence I contacted you.
Perhaps, you may not be related to him but it behoves on us to seize this
golden opportunity to salvage his savings since I could not locate any
relation of his either dead or alive. I have in my records his documents
where he left behind the sum of Ten million United States of American
dollars(US$10 million) in a Bank. I have contacted you to assist me in
repartriating this fund left behind by my client before it gets confisicated
or declared unserviceable by the Bank where this huge amount was deposited.

The Bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his
account confisicated within the next twenty one official working days as the
policy of the bank is to overrun over five years of
unserviceable and dormant accounts. They have a veritable excuse as they
knew that my client was dead.

Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relations all this while, I
seek your unsolicited consent to present you as the next of kin to the
deceased since you have the same last (surnames)names. This is to enable us
salvage the proceeds of his account and get it paid to you instead. I have
this obssession that if the directors of the Bank confiscated the money, it
might not be put into proper and useful ventures to benefit the poor masses
of this world. I wish to use part of my share to donate to charitable
organisations and churches.

Therefore, should this proposal appeal to you and on receipt of your
positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities
for transfer. I have all necessary information and legal
documents needed to back you up for the claim. All I needed was a willing
foreigner who will be honest,trustworthy and transperant both in business
and spirit with his or her unalloyed co-operation to enable us see this
transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate
arrangements that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Thanks and have my best Regards.

Barrister Daniel Mawule.(Esq).

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