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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: Patrick Kyhiter <barrkyhiter01@sify.com>
Reply-To: barrkyhiter1@sify.com
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:28:47 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Urgent Attention From Barr Kyhiter (Esq)


FROM BARR PATRICK KYHITER CHAMBERS

1515 CIRCLE GATE,

P.M.B 1076 OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.

PRIVATE MEMO



Dear Friend,



Please kindly accept my apology for
sending unsolicited mail to you. I believe you are a highly respected
personality,   considering the fact that I sourced your profile from a
human resource profile database on your country. Though, I do not   know
to what extent you are familiar with events.



Well, I am Barrister Patrick Kyhiter, a
Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to Engineer Dr. Carmen Stewart, a
foreigner who   used to work and owned Corbeil Oil International in
Burkina Faso. On the 21st of April 2006, his wife and their three  
children were involved in a car accident along Bobo Express Road.
Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of   the accident.
Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any
of my client's relatives, 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 to no avail, I
decided to locate any member of his family hence I  contacted you. I
contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my
client in a Finance Company.



Before his death On the 21st of April
2006 {my client, his wife and their three children were involved in a
car accident   along Bobo Express Road in which all occupants of the
motor died}. My client deposited as family belongings in a CONSIGNMENT  
{i.e jewelries} the sum of $11.3 Million in a African Reserve Bank here
in Burkina Faso and from there to citi royal exchange   abroad for
himself, with the hope of transferring it to his country as soon as he
is on leave.



Particularly, the Finance House where
the deceased deposited the US$11.3 Million (Eleven Million Three Hundred
Thousand   United States Dollars only). Consequently, this Finance
House issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin to claim the  
US$11.3 Million (Eleven Million Three Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars only). In their custody within the next twenty   official
working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives
for over 4 years now, I seek your consent to   present you as the next
of kin of the deceased to claim the fund as the Next of Kin to him I
decided to trace his last name,   to locate any member of his family
hence I contacted you. so that the fund will be transferred to your
account by the Finance   House.



Upon receipt of the fund, I will come
over to your country to meet with you for the disbursement of the fund
and then you and   I will share the money in this order: 55% will be for
me, 40% will be for you. while 5% should be for expenses or tax as 
your  government may require, I have all the necessary legal documents
that will back our claim with the Finance House. All I   require is your
honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee
that this will be executed under a   legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.





Once you are interested to work with
me,you should establish a way of communication. So what i will require
from you is to   send me your urgent information listed below,



1 FULL NAME

2 CONTACT ADDRESS

3 TEL/FAX NUMBER

4 MOBILE NUMBER

5 AGE

6 OCCUPATION

7 SEX



With these details i will now file an
application to the bank as true next of kin to my late client, send me
these details   immediately as we can not afford delays.



Thanks as i await your urgent response.



With Best Regards

Barr Kyhiter (Esq)

Tell: +226 789 689 82

barrkyhiter02@sify.com



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