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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: Martin Rodger <mt_rodger1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mt_rodgerchambers@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:39:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: From FALCON CHAMBERS LONDON?.


FALCON CHAMBERS
Falcon Court Yard London EC4Y 1AA.
London,United Kingdom.

Our Ref: FALCON/FRT/WT/2007/UK Your Ref: ........

Attention: Dear Friend,

My name is Martin Rodger QC. I am a legal attorney & solicitor with the Falcon Chambers and a member of the Queens Council here in london,UK. I am the personal legal adviser and lawyer to Mr.Andrea Engine, the past President Transfixed Worley Company globally. My client is late. He died with his family in the July, 2000, in Air France plane crash. For your confirmations of my honest and transparency, I will provide the web page and data's of this tragedy in our next correspondence.

As a matter of fact, my client had a fixed time deposit of £10.5 Million british pounds sterling in one of the European capital bank in UK, and his stocks investment worth 3.1 million euros (with unclaimed dividends) being managed by his stockbrokers. Consequently, the European capital bank, has recently issued me a notice to provide my client next of kin or they will have his fund confisticated by terms of liquidation into the federal treasury of the british Government, for purchase of ammunitions.

I have made several enquiries and discreet investigations,through the embassy trying to locate any of my clients extended relatives in the last seven years and it have completely proved unsuccessful. On this evidence that there is no next of kin that will come-up anytime for this claim, I hereby ask for your corporation, to present you as the next of kin, to my late client, so that these financial assets will be released for transfer into your own account for us to share the benefits. You will not pay any legal charges. But rather the administrative processes,if any.

All I require is your honest cooperation with me. I guarantee you, this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement and both of us will sign the MOU. No involvement by the government or any other member of the falcon chambers at all. All information's and documented procedures will be highly classified and kept as top confidential secrets between us only as partners. This transaction is totally free from any form of risk and troubles beucause the fund is genuie and does not originate from drug deals, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act, the funds will be released to you after all relevant tranfer processes have been perfected. My legal profile, http://www.falcon-chambers.co.uk/members/member.cfm?id=165

I, sincerely appreciate your understanding and willingness to co-operate with me. Thanks and I wait your reply soon.

Yours Faithfully,
Martin Rodger QC.
FALCON CHAMBERS.



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