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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 TEMPLE MARTIN <barr.temple1950@gmail.com>
Date: 27 Mar 2011 09:20:12 -0000
Subject: I PLEAD FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO BE PRESENTED AS NEXT OF KIN TO INHERIT$14.8

Hello dear,

Please treat this message with every seriousness and confidentiality. My name is Attorney Christian Temple Martins, principal attorney for Temple Martins Abogados and lawyer to late Eng. Alan Muder Soudi,your country's citizen and civil engineer/contractor who worked with the Asturiana de Zinc S.A. in Spain for thirteen years.


On 11th March 2004, my client lost his life alongside his wife, daughter and several others in the tragic terrorist bomb blast in Madrid, Spain .Please visit this webpage http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3500452.stm for a detailed information on the incident.

Before My Client's death, he owned and operated an account valued at $14.8M (Fourteen million, Eight Hundred thousand United States dollars) with a bank here in Spain.
Ever since then, as the family attorney and friend I have made several inquires to locate any of my client's extended relatives but this has proved unsuccessful.

This afternoon, the bank issued me another notice (the third and final) to provide his relative or have the account confiscated within the next 10 working days. As I have been unsuccessful in locating his immediate relatives for over 5 years, I hereby seek your consent in order to present you to the bank as a distant relative to the deceased, the proceeds of this account shall be transferred to any of your nominated bank account for us to share 45% for you, 45% for me and 10% for any expenses or taxes as your home government may require.

All I require is your honest cooperation and I guarantee that this will be executed under a legal and legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law in the near or distant future. I have a reputation as a seasoned attorney to protect and will not allow any loopholes in this transaction.

This transaction is 100% risk free as I have every document/information and will arrange any other document that will assist your/our claims in order to facilitate the release of the funds to you/us

Please carefully go through this proposal line by line and Please get in touch with me urgently and provide me the following information to

enable us go for the claim of the fund from the Depositing Bank in Spain.Send to

me the following information to let me file a letter of claim to the bank with
the information as the beneficairy information of were they should effect the
payment
of the fund:

FULL NAMES: ____________________________________
GENDER: ________________________________________
DATE OF BIRTH:___________________________________
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:__________________________
HOME ADDRESS:__________________________________
OFFICE ADDRESS:________________________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER:__________
OCCUPATION:______________________________________
YOUR PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS:_____________

Your urgent response will be highly anticipated and appreciated.

I await your sincere response urgently. You can reply at my private email

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