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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "DAVIDSMITH SOLICITORS" <barr.michellescott@lawyer.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:00:50 +0100 (CET)
Subject: DAVID & SMITH SOLICITORS (+447405202938)

 

DAVID SMITH & CO. SOLICITORS
(legal Practitioners)
1101 Beresford Street
Oxford, London
United Kingdom
       Tel: +447405202938            
E-mail: barr.michellescott@lawyer.com


Dear,

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. My name is Bar. Robbert D Scott Esq. (Attorney), of the DAVID SMITH & CO. SOLICITORS United Kingdom, PRACTITIONERS & FINANCIAL SOLICITORS. I actually got your contact information through the Europe and United States public records and information exchange while searching for someone who can assist me. My late client Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah, was the deputy governor of Baghdad in Iraq and also a business man. Upon maturity several notices were sent to him, even in the first quarter of this year. Again another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later found out that the Deputy Governor was assassinated in Baghdad. The websites below is a proof and verification of the news about his death:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/3970619.stm
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=6979

Before his death, he deposited the sum of GBP£25Million (Twenty-Five Million British Pounds Sterling) only, with a safe keeping security company here in London UK, but he did not disclosed this deposit to any other person, for security reasons. The safe keeping company has mandated me to present any family heir/inheritor for claim before the consignment gets confiscated or reverts to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, as an unclaimed diplomatic immunity.  So I decided to search for any of my late client's relative which has been very difficult for me, as he did not declare any other person, address, partner or relatives in the official paper works of his deposited funds.
Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah, since you are a foreigner, so that the funds can be released to you. With my position as his lawyer, I will now place your name as the next of kin to my late client. I will prepare every relevant document that will assist your claims, and facilitate the release of the funds transfer.

All the legal documentations to back up your claim as my client's next of Kin, I shall provide them. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us achieve this transaction. I wish to point out that I want 10% of this money to be shared among the charity Organizations of our choice, while the remaining 90% is shared equally between us. This transaction is entirely risk free, and I will use my position as the client’s attorney to guarantee the successful execution of this transaction.

If you are interested, please contact me through my personal Telephone: +447405202938 or my email barr.michellescott@lawyer.com Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and the relevant documents which will help you understand this transaction well.

The intended transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law. However, if this business proposal offends your moral ethics, do accept my sincere apologies.

If on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me, kindly get back to me with your interest for further explanations. I await your soonest response.

Best Regards,
Barrister Michelle D. Scott Esq.(Attorney )
Email me only AT: barr.michellescott@lawyer.com

  

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