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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: blessingpaul1 <blessingpaul1@orange.nl>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:17:59 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONTACT MY LAWYER


Dear Friend,

Longest time, I hope all is well together with your family, If so glory be to God almighty. Well,Sorry to hear this news and understand that the fault is not from me. I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the co-operation of a new partner from paraguay. Presently i'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of total sum.
meanwhile, i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring this funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my lawyer in Benin Republic his name is Barrister Oke Adiohwo on his e-mail address stated below;

NAME : Barrister Oke Adiohwo
EMAIL:barr_okeadiohwo@yahoo.com
TEL. +229-97-62-77-98
FAX: +229-97-57-10-21

I ask him to send you the total Amount of $1,200,000.00 USD, which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touched with my Lawyer Barr. Anthony Wells, I instruct him where to send the check and send him your contact information like

1.Your Full Name..................................
2.Your Private Home & Offie Address................
3.Your Office & Home Tel Phone...........
4.Your Country Location..........................
5.Sex..........................
6.Age........................


So that he will submit it to the courier company where i directed him for the check to be sent to your designated address without any delay. Please do let me know immediately if you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the suffering at that time ok, In the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects which I and my new partner are having at hand,

finally, remember that I have forwarded instruction to the lawyer on your behalf to instruct the courier company to send the check to you as soon as you send your details information without delay, so feel free to get in touch with Barr. Oke Adiohwo he will inform courier to send the check immediately to you without any delay as i instructed him to do.

Thank you and may God Bless you.
Best Regards,
Miss. Blessing Paul

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