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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: =?utf-8?q?Emmy=20Bigland?= <emmybigland@rocketmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:35:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: YOURS FAITHFULLY


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:emmybigland@rocketmail.com



- I am Barrister Emmy Bigland, the Personal Attorney to Late Engr.Owen A national of your country,who worked as an expertriate contractor with an oil firm in my country. he died with his entire family recent bomb blast which occurred in London on the 7th of July 2005.Unfortunately they all lost their lives in the event of that inccident which brought tears to the eyes of the world,Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives,and this has also proved unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but of no avail,hence I decided to contact you.I to assist me in repartriating the money and properties left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the finance house where this huge deposits were lodged.Particularly,the finance house where the deceased had an account valued at about $11.5million U.S dollars(Eleven million,Five hundred thousand united states dollars)).Conseqently,the finance house has issued a notice to me to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated/declared unserviceable within the next ten official working days.Since i have been unsuccesfull in locating the the relatives for over three years now.I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are a foriegner and with foreign identification so that the proceedings of this account valued at $11.5million U.S dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money.55% for me and 40% to you,while 5% should be for expenses or tax as your government may require.I have to secure all necessary legal documents that can be used to back-up this claims legally.All I require is your honest cooperation and transperency to enable us see this deal through.Iguarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me via my alternative to :barrister_emmy@yahoo.com: to enable us discuss further sequal to the confidentialities.NB:Please get back to me with the following informations of yours YOUR FULL NAMES AND ADDRESS. YOUR PHONE NUMBERS AND FAX. YOUR OCCUPATIONS, YOUR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER WHERE TO PAY INN THRE MONEY,Send all correspondence to me via my alternative email address,(barrister_emmy@yahoo.com)please this transaction should remain confidential untill we finally execute it and all informations should be directed to my alternative email address.(barrister_emmy@yahoo.com) YOURS FAITHFULLY;BARRISTER EMMY BIGLAND


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