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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: Elizabeth Barron <elizabeth.barron213@msn.com>
Reply-To: elizabeth.barron23@msn.com
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:32:04 -0200
Subject: PLEASE REPLY ME




Hello My Beloved,

My name is Mrs.Elizabeth Barron, I am the family attorney to late
Mr.David Noah who passed away with his entire family in a Car Accident
on the 28thof June ,2006 here in London.two weeks before this
unexperted incident, I had assisted my client to make a very important
and discreet deposit with a Financial Company here in London .The
total sum of =A32.5 million British Pounds was deposited with
thisFinancial Company by my client on the 12th of June ,2006 before
this unexperted incident.This funds was earmarked by my client for
estate and capital investments in London but Unfortunately he never
lived to make this dream a reality before his unfaithful dealth
incident.

All attempts to trace his next of kin to make claims on the funds
were fruitless. After an exhaustive investigations I discovered that
Mr.David Noah did not declare any next of kin or relation in all his
official documents. As the family attorney, the Financial Company
requires me to present the next of kin to our late client to claim the
deposit.The Financial Company have asured me that they will release
this funds to any of my client relation that i can find and present to
them to claim the deposit funds of my late client with the Financial
Company.I am therefore seeking for your consent to present you as the
Next of Kin to my client=A0 to the Financial Company so that this funds
would be release to you. All I require is your honest cooperation to
enable us seeing this through. I guarantee that this will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect all the parties
involved from any breach of the law.I will provide you further deposit
details and the Financial Company contact
informations when due.

Finally, I will offer you 40% of this funds after you have
successfully received the funds in your account, while 60% will be
mine.To signify your interest, kindly provide me with Your names, full
contact address, telephone and fax number , this will be required to
commence immediate
funds release procedure.

Looking forward to receiving your response.

Regards,
Mrs.Elizabeth Barron



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