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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: "[MORGAN LEWIS & ASSOCIATES]"<morgan_lewis2@myway.com>
Reply-To: morganlewis_chambers2007@takemail.com
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:44:44 -0500 (EST)
Subject: HELLO MY DEAR, LET'S WORK TOGETHER


{MORGAN LEWIS &amp; ASSOCIATES}Email:morgan_lewis@takemail.comWebsite: www.morganlewis.com Hello My Dear,always contact me at morgan_lewis@takemail.comI am Morgan Lewis {Law Firm Owner}. Actually, I got your contact through my wife{Natasha Lewis} after our private internet search for a reliable and honest personality {foreigner} who can help us in a deal of this nature. I am an attorney to German Property Magnate Andreas Schranner an immigrant) who was my client and based in the U.K with some of his valuable assets. On the 25th of July 2000, my client, his wife and their two children lost in the air France concord plane crash bound for New York in their plan for a world cruises.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stmSince then I have been managing his properties in the U.K and some which he put for sale, which I monitored the payment as his attorney. His money paid, was deposited into his local account in the U. K and I have been contacted by his bank to provide
his beneficiary to the account, because since then the account has been dormant or have the account confiscated by the bank. I am contacting you as a foreigner because of the need involving a foreigner, just for you to help me in repatriating the fund (Twenty-Five million pounds) left by my client in the bank. Now the bank has issued me three weeks to provide a beneficiary or have the fund declared unserviceable (confiscated within the said short time).Since I have been unsuccessful in locating his relatives for some time now and as the bank has issued me a deadline, I now seek your consent to present you as the beneficiary to the account, so that we can receive this fund into your account as a foreigner, and we can share the money 40% for you and 60% for me. I will procure all necessary information that can be used to back any claim we might make. I will forward to you all vital documents relating to our claim. All I need from you is your honest co-operation to enable us to
achieve success in this deal. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law. Trust me, as his attorney; this is a risk free deal relationship. I will furnish you with more detail/info about this deal when I hear from you.Please for the sake of confidentiality, reply to my private E-mail box at morgan_lewis@takemail.comIf you are interested in our proposals/offer. I look forward for your urgent reply today.Best regardsMORGAN LEWIS [ESQ].

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