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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: barrister dan <barristerdan002@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: barristerdan2007@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:30:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From Barrister Dan Pasongo.


From Barrister Dan Pasongo.
Senior Advocate of Togo(ESQ)
West Africa.

Dear friend.

With due respect, don't be surprised or afraid to receive this type of message from me. Well, I am (Barrister Dan Pasongo.) the personal residential attorney here in my country Lome Togo to (Dr.Calixto Centeno Lucuy) who died in event of plane crash on 19th September 1989 in DC10 plane of the UTA company, flight number UT 772,Brazzaville-Paris, may his soul rest in perfect peace.My late client left the sum of Ten million Five Hundred thousand united state dollars ($10.5M USD) in his account with Union Bank Of Togo here in my country.

The fact and confidentially, this sum kept here very secret while nobody knows, as he was American and governor of Kuwait Petroleum Company, he knew very well that anything can happen as Kuwait is an Arab country, so he kept this money here in case of emergency. Unfortunately he lost his life in the event of the plane crash, since then, I have made several enquiries to locate any of his relatives but all my efforts were unsuccessful.

Above all, since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the banks treasure as unclaimed fund because the banking law and guidelines here stipulated that if such money remained unclaimed after sixteen years ten months the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund, my request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and I can not stand as His next of kin.

Confirm the crash with the website as follows: <http://assoc.wanadoo.fr/dc10-uta/> I decided to trace his relatives over the internet to locate any member
of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted you to assist me in repatriating the balance of late Dr. Lucuy left behind to you as his real next of kin. For your assistance, i agree to offer you 30% as my foreign partner after the money will be transfer into your nominated bank account and 5% will be aside of any expenses during the transfer.

Therefore, to enable immediate transfer of the fund into your account as indicated, you must apply first to the bank as next of kin, by indicating your status where the money will be remitted.You must be interest to note that I have all the necessary legal documents which we will use to backup this claim successfully.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law.I hope you will welcome this life opportunity, if so please get back to me in confirmation of your good interest to enable us starts to proceed.

I am looking forward to hear from you, to enable me send to you the text of application which you will fill-in your details where the money will be remitted and tender to the bank for immediate action.You can also call me through my mobile line at 00228-9653993 for more discussions.

Thanks in anticipation of your kind co-operation.


Best regards,

Barrister Dan Pasongo.



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