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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: alintah147@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:34:48 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Please=20get=20in=20touch=20with=20me=20=2E=20=28alintahastrada=40yahoo=2Ecom=29=20?=

Greetings to you,

I hope this meets you in good health.My name is Barrister Astrada Alintah
Esq. a legal practitioner and Attorney to late Mr. Ziya Han, who died in
the EgyptAir Flight 990 plane crash of Boeing 767 on October 31 1999.All
217 people aboard the Boeing 767 died.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/19/egyptair.02/index.html My late client was
an influential wealthy businessman, a Contractor and big time Oil dealer
and the Principal owner of Oil Alliance Companyand he left behind a deposit
of Eight Million Two Hundred ThousandUnited States Dollar($8,200,000.00USD)as
a consignment owned by his foreign business partner.

I want you to stand as my late client next of kin/beneficary in
londonto claim the cash deposit. Which is one of the main reasons it has
beenvery important to locate his next of kin.I have employed every method
to
locate any of my clients extended relatives but this exercise has proved
unsuccessful. After the death of my client the manager of the company contacted
me,as to the decease Attorney to provide his next of kin who should inherit
his cash consignment. The directors of his company adopted a resolution
and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the
payment of this money or forfeit the money to the company . The
company had planned to invoke a clause in the property Act, to confiscate
the funds after the expiration of a period given to me.Despairing and at
the point of desperation, I came across youremail,while trying to locate
documentation's regarding possible relatives of my client . Convinced that
you may be able to act in locus for my late client as his next of
kin, I therefore, decided tocontact you with these facts before me because
of the status quo. By virtue of my brief and my closeness to the deceased,
I am very much aware of my client's financial standing and he operates here
in my london.

I have reasoned very professionally and I feel it will be legally proper
to present you as the next of kin of my deceased client and the sole beneficiary
of the cash consignment. The rest is between you and I and with my guide
we can have the money paid into your account, once this is done we shall
both share the funds. 60%to me and 40% to you, I shall assemble all the
necessary Legal Documents that will be used to back up
our claim .All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this
deal through I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any Breach of law.

Please get in touch with me . (alintahastrada@yahoo.com)

I will detail you more as soon as i received your reply mail Best Regards,

Barrister Astrada Alintah





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