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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: Samuel Robertson <samrtso03@www.netcom-net.com>
Reply-To: samnrobertson01@hotmail.com
Date: 5 Aug 2007 20:11:48 -0000
Subject: Roy J.Besso

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Dear Sir/Madam,



I am highly delighted to be in contact with you and sorry for the embarrassment this mail might be to you as we have not met or known each other before but please feel free to write me back and let me know if you can be of help, I am a British Citizen with God fearing looking for an honest Person to move along in this matter with all the diligence.





My name is Mr. Samuel Robertson. I was a good friend to Late Mr. Roy J.Besso, a national of your country, who until his death has no wife nor son or daughter to claim his assets.





He was a Building contractor and has spent most of his life in my country United Kingdom, Mr. Roy J.Besso was involved in Mandala Airlines Boeing 737-200 Plane Crash - September 2005 and lost his life.





Since then I have made several inquiries to your country embassy to locate any of my friends extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful hence: he has no next-of-kin at the time of his death.







After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you since all my effort to trace or locate any member of his family failed me so that you as a foreigner will assist me as my late friend next-of-kin in repatriating the the assets and Capital valued at US$10.5million left behind by my friend before the Bank return it to the state Government as the maturity of payment of this fixed amount have come and gone living the fund in the custody of the Bank without any direction of use and this have caused the Bank to have an eyebrow since they found out that my late friend was involved in the Mandala Plane Crash.







The said Bank in UK has issued me a notice to provide the next of Kin or have the Fixed Deposit return to the State Government. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of my friend's relatives for over Two Months now, I seek the consent to present you as the Next-of-kin to the deceased since you are a foreigner, so that the proceeds of this fixed fund can be paid to you.





Therefore, on receipt of your positive response and full indication vividly to work with me to actualize this issue, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for claim. I have all the necessary information as what to do in this regards for proper commencement of this claim.





All I require from you is your honest cooperation to stand firmly and proper confidentiality of this issue to you only to avoid security lapses which can be very anti to this very issue, maturity of the mind is what matters in this case to take your decision like a man whether to embark or not.





I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.Reply through my alternative email address below: samnrobertson01@hotmail.com, I can be reached on this phone number:+44 704 570 5845.



I wait to hear from you soon.



Sincerely,



Samuel Robertson




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