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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: don prince <donprince42@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 01:35:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Reply me Immediately


From Barrister Don Prince Esq
Principal Partner Don Prince &
Associates Chambers
(legal practionner/advocates)
Lome Togo.

Dear Friend,

As it may be of your keen interest, I am Barister Dogulas James ,a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mr Hamed Abdel Wahab Ahmed a contractor with Shell Oil Development Company S.A.R.L in Lome Togo, Here in after referred to as my client. who on aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31,1999 and unfortunately lost his life.
Ref. website
http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html

Before his accidental death, he left his WILL with this Chambers requesting that his FUND(U.S.$12,500,000.00) with a BANK in LOME- TOGO here be shared among Philantropists abroad in the event of his death. This Chambers have in a
meeting resolved to carefully draw up a random pool of unknown Names and their E-Mail Addresses gotten from a variety of WEBSITES across Africa,America,Asia and Europe to determine the beneficiary of this WILL.

It is our pleasure to inform you that you were picked in a carefully RANDOM draw picked by a SEVEN YEAR OLD girl from the DIRECTORS OF FEDERAL BOARD OF INLAND REVENUE that supervised the DRAW.

Having received repeated NOTICES from the BANK to provide the beneficiary to this FUND(U.S.$12.5M) after the late family of Mr.Hamed Abdel Wahab Ahmed had withdrawn what was left for them in the WILL at the BANK
immediately after

the Crash through this Chambers.We request you to indicate your willingness to accept this offer before it is too late, moreso, this Chambers have been duely informed by the BANK that this money stands to be transfered to the FEDERAL
TREASURY if we do not provide the beneficiary shortly from now.

On the receipt of your positive response, we shall firstly discuss on the sharing ratio and proceed from there.

Be informed that all necessary legal procedures will be
strictly followed to back up the Claim by this Chambers, hence we had to invite the Federal Board of Inland Revenue in the first place to supervise the RANDOM DRAW, in which you were successful.

We need your honest co-operation while we guarantee you 100% success in this transaction where you are ready to co-operate with this CHAMBERS
Thanks in anticipation of your co-operation and positive reply.

Best Regards.

Don Prince Esq.



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