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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: "Barrister Irwin Mitchell" <mail@sybonlie.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:01:38 +0100
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam


Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Barrister Irwin Mitchell of london United Kindom and I am the personal attorney to late Mr Chung, who was an oil merchant and oil service contractor in richest ashland oil petroleum development company here in London United Kingdom. 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 Mr Chung, in the ill-fated airplane,he opened a pounds sterling account with one back here into which he deposited GBP5,500,000.00 with no indication of his next of kins.Following this unfortunate incident,the bank has issued me a notice to provide the Next of kin, or have the account confiscated and all efforts that I have made so far to locate any member of the family was unsuccessfull,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 you as the Next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued of GBP5,500,000.00 can be paid to you, as my clients Next of Kin, and then we can share the amount on a mutual agreed percentage, because if no one comes forward to claim the money,the bank will confiscate the account and convert it to its own use.

Contact me through my private E-mail:irwinmitchell@sify.com

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.

Best Regards,

Barrister Irwin Mitchell


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