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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: ALBERT AYODELE <c2dave3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <c2dave6@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:43:23 +0100
Subject: hello


DearSir/Madam,
I am Barrister Dave Coleman of Chambers of Janet Mitchell and (Askthefamilylawyer) of london United Kindom and I am the the personal attorney to late Mr Chung Raymond, who was an oil merchant and oil service contractor in richest ashland oil petroleum development company here in London United Kindom.

who lost his life in an air crash involving a Korean Airline Boeing 747-300 Flight number 801 on August 5, 1997 in which 227 passengers out of 231 including crew lost their lives during one of his business trips to Korea.you can verify this accident in following the .website;http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/korean.crash/.

Before the sudden death of late Chung Raymond, in the ill-fated airplane,he opened a dollar account with one back here into which he deposited usd$8,500,000.00 with no indication of his next of kins.Following this unfortunate incident,I was instructed by the bank to locate his family who is surposed to stand as the next of kin to late Mr Chung Raymond, used to visit his bank with me as his attorney to recommend his next of kin for the payment of the usd$8.5 million on or before 12:Noon on this date 9/11/2007, standing to the credit of late Mr Chung Raymond.

All efforts I have made so far to locate any member of the family was unsuccessfull so that is why I want you to Re-present as next of kin to the deceased since he never introduced any nor wrote his will in favour of any bodies name before the accident.
The purpose of contacting you is to present yourself as the next of kin to our late customer and claim out the money for sharing between you,myself and the late customer's attorney who will recommend and present you as his next of kin.

As the late customer's attorney and I will jointly work to see to it that the money is paid to you because if not one comes forward to claim the money,our bank will confiscate it and convert it to its own use.

Contact me through theis email address If you are interested,contact me by return mail as I shall give you details of how we will proceed including terms of sharing the money. Have a blessed day.
Yours faithfully, Barrister Dave Coleman,
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