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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: Attorney Anthony Tanney <anthonytanney.falcons@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 23:47:36 +0000
Subject: Late Christian Bosch(Strictly Confidential)


6/8/07


Good day Sir,

My name is Anthony Tanney; I am a solicitor with the Falcon Chambers,Falcon Court London EC4Y 1AA UK, the personal attorney to Late Christian Bosch, a German nationale and an Engineer here, who died with his family on the Monday, 31 July, 2000, aboard AF4590, which crashed into the Hotelissimo. Unfortunately they all lost their lives in the event as there was no survivor. For your confirmations, you can visit the website below for more information on the crash; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.

I have made several enquiries to locate any of my clients extended relatives, which has also proved unsuccessful. As a matter of fact, he made a fixed time deposit of £1.7million with a finance house here in the United Kingdom; also stocks worth 17 million euros (with interest) being managed by his broker,which is why I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they died or the Finance house where he made the deposit might declare them unserviceable.

Already, the Finance house issued me a notice/Ultimatum to provide the next of kin to the deceased or have the account confiscated within One Month.

Owing to my unsuccessful search for the relatives getting to 7 years now, I seek your consent to stand in as the next of kin to the deceased and we all stands the right to protect his legacy as such the proceeds of the deposit and stocks can be paid to you for both of us to share the funds. I have some legal documents that can be used to backup the claim, while the rest could be processed through the court.

All I require is your honest cooperation, trust and confidentiality as i guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement.

More about me can be found directly on the the chambers Website; http://www.falcon-chambers.co.uk/members/member.cfm?id=173


Thanks for your kind co-operation.

Cheers,

Anthony Tanney
Direct Tel:- :+44-703-191-1815


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