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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: kellybute7@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:17:48 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20REPLY?=


Dear Sir/Ma


CONTACT ME ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS; kellyso@myway.com

All though this letter may appear as a surprise to you, but I will appreciate
if you can make out time to go through my message.

I am Mr Shehu Kelly Bute ESQ a solicitor at law and personal attorney to
my late client, a foregin National , He was formally a director with Kobe
Steel Corporation company, a Japanese company that constructed the Liquidified
Natural Gas Company in Eleme -River state Nigeria.

My late client, were involved in a plane crash and unfortunately the
died in the accident.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html


Prior to his death, my late client deposited ($2.420m) two million four
hundred and twenty thousand united states dollars) with a Bank here in
my country.
Status now is that my client left no will or any information about his next
of kin and since then I have made several inquiries to foregin embassys
here to locate any of my late clients extended Relatives, this has also
proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you for
help. If I inform the company of my late client about the fund, they will
definitely want to claim it from the Bank.

In view of this, I have decided to contact you to assist me in getting
this fund from the Bank since nobody has any knowledge of the deposited
fund.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
We can get the fund from the Bank with you standing as th next of kin to
my late cilent.

I will use your name to get all legal documents from the federal high court
here presenting you as the executor of my client's estate .

since I have his death certificate with me. I believe this is privileged
information which I expect you to keep confidential and secret because of
my profession. ;

CONTACT ME ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS; kellyso@myway.com


The business will not take us time since all we need is to get the legal
documents from the court which I will send to the Bank to inform them that
you are the next of kin to my client and beneficiary of the fund.
The deposited fund can be transferred direct to your bank account through
the consultants of the Bank as soon as we conclude the documentation process.
I am ready to give you 15% of the total sum for your co-operation.


If you are willing to assist me in getting the funds which we both will
benefit from, send me your full name/complete mailing address as I will
need it for the Legal documents. I will also need your direct


SEE THE WEBSITE AGAIN;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

CONTACT ME ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS; kellyso@myway.com
Regards
Mr Shehu Kelly Bute ESQ









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