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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: "Pascal Dike" <barrpascal@ibibo.com>
Reply-To: dikechambers@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 12:59:59 -0000
Subject: Attention



BARRISTER PASCAL DIKE.
OFFICE. ADDRESS 231 IKOYI LAGOS ISLAND
OPP MIKE STEVE PLAZA.
PHONE =(+234 809693024)

Attention,

I am Barrister Pascal Dike, a solicitor at law; I am the personal attorney
to late Eng.Adams, who used to work with shell - Development Company in
Nigeria. Hereinafter shall be referred to as my client. On April 25th
2005, my client, his wife and three children were involved in a train
accident in Japan during their visit to Japan which all the families were
dead. Here is some news about the train accident:
Click on the web address:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/25/AR2005042500187.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4480031.stm

Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of
my client's extended relatives, but this has also proved unsuccessful.
After several attempts to locate a member of his family, hence I contacted
you. I am contacting you to assist me repatriating the money and
properties left behind by my client before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable to the bank here this huge deposit were lodge.
Particularly, the bank where the diseased had an account valued at
[12.5million dollars] has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or
have the account confiscated within the next fourteen official working
days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relative for the past
years, now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to my
late client. Since you both have the same surname and you are capable of
doing this transaction. So that the proceeds of this account valued at
[12.5miilion dollars] can be paid to you, then you and I can share the
money 60% for me and 30% for you, while 5% will be used to offset all the
expenses incurred in the course of this transaction including tax and 5%
for the poor in your country. I have all necessary legal documents that
can be used to back up our claims. All i require is your honest
co-operation to enable us seeing this transaction through. I guarantee
that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect
you from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me by my email and send the following information
to me.

Your full name
Residential address
Phone and fax numbers to enable us discuss further about this transaction.
Looking forward to your prompt response.

Best regards to you and your family.

Thank you.
Barrister Pascal Dike.


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