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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: Charles Johnson <esq_johnson20@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <cj_chamber@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:20:50 +0100
Subject: Hello,



Charles-Johnson Chambers.
Bankruptcy Law, Estate Planning, Elder Law, Family Law, commercial litigation , Immigration & Naturalization Law, Probate & Estate Administration, Wills, Taxation Law
23 HOUSING ESTATE IKOYI LAGOS NIGERIA.
Dear friend, Please kindly accept my apology for sending this unsolicited mail to you. I believe you are a highly respected personality, considering the fact that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on your country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with this event. Well, I am Barrister Charles Johnson the personal Attorney to Late: Engr. Allen C.Chu , A USA. Indigene, who used to work with Global International Oil company in Nigeria Before his death which took place On Saturday, 4 May, 2002 [my client, his wife and their only daughter were involved in the plane crash incident. Meanwhile,My client {Engr.Allen} deposited the sum of $12.3m in a commercial bank here in Nigeria for himself, with the hope of transferring it to his country as soon as he resumes his leave come Saturday, 4 May, 2002,before his untimely death in a plane crash. Since, his death I have made several enquiries to his embassy to locate any of my late clients extended relatives and this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family but to no avail. Hence, I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist me in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where these Money was Deposited. Particularly, the (Bank) where the deceased Deposited (US$12.300,000) twelve million three hundred thousand dollars has issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin within the next ten official working days so that they can get his fund transfered to him or failingly to present the next of kin they would get his fund confisticated and by so doing that means that we are going to loose the fund and it would now be in their custody as their (N.A.P). moreover,I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over years now but in my searches i found out that there is no relative of his whom is familiar with the incidents so i decided to seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the bank where this my late client deposited his fund would get the fund transfered to you as the bonafide next of kin to this my late client for the both of us.

Meanwhile,i would like you to bear in mind that the sharing ratio would be 50% to me and 40% to you while 10% would be for expenses and I want you to know that I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up the claims but most importantly my intention is getting an outright person who is very sincere and God fearing someone and not a cheat or greedy someone who will sit on my own share of the money after the bank have transfer the money.

So if you are touched and you know that you are not going to be so greedy to sit on my own share then you can get back to me in regards to this venture ok.And in your return mail,i will like you to furnish me with this details to verify before going into the venture ok. 1) Your private contact telephone number:2) fax number:3) Your age:4) full name:5) Contact address:6) occupation: Waiting to hear from you and god bless. Best Regards,Barrister Charles Johnson (Esq). (Attorney at Law).
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