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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: "BARRISTER KARL" <barristerkarl@sify.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:33:16 +0200
Subject: K. DAGOGO AND ASSOCIATE

K. DAGOGO AND ASSOCIATE
FINANCIAL, LABOR ADVISORS,
LEGAL CONTRACT & REPRESENTATION
P.O BOX 8026, CRESTA
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: 27 73564 2812
E-MAIL: barrikarl@hotmail.com

I am a Johannesburg based lawyer, I have a client (a widow) from DRC
CONGO who ran to South Africa for the safety of her life and that of her
children, after her husband was killed in the ongoing political civil
war, and her husband was the country former financier minister then. She
was granted an asylum under the south African government umbrella, she
has USDM10,000,000.(Ten million united state dollars)which she deposit
with private security company for safekeeping in Johannesburg upon her
arrival in the country .

She wishes to invest in a stable economy; oversea due to that she
cannot invest the fund in South Africa as a result of her political status,
her interest is in venture with potentials for rapid growth in long
terms, My client is interested in placing part of her fund in your
company, if your Country' bi-laws allows foreign investment. And she is
willing to offer you 30% of the total funds if you can assist her transfer
this fund to your any bank account of your wish. You can contact me for
more details via Phone or email with your reference for more details.

Note that this transaction has no risk and all relevant documents for
the transfer will be provided as I am in the line to make sure that all
the required documents are well secured for the smooth transfer of the
money by bank to bank transfer and procedures.

If you are interested in this deal kindly contact me, with this mail
address {barrikarl@hotmail.com} only As soon as you can.

Yours faithfully

Barrister Karl

N: B The fund is free from drug and laundering related offences and
this transaction need utmost confidentiality, the transaction is 100%risk
free





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