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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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Fraud email example:

From: Barr Okpara O.K Okpala <associates@latinmail.com>
Date: 10 Aug 2011 13:07:25 +0200
Subject: From Barr Okpara O.K Okpala Urgently Treated


From: Barr. Okpara O.K Okpala
email;associates@latinmail.com
Plot 205 Ahmadu Bello Way,
Victoria Island, Lagos-Nigeria. .
Private Email:barr_okpara_okpala@latinmail.com

For Your Urgent Attention

I am highly esteemed to write you this very urgent letter. I am Barrister Martins Keegan, a Solicitor and Financial Attorney to Mr.Fredrick M. Stein, a national of your country, who died in motor accident in the year 2006. Before his death,

he was a contractor to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), one of the biggest Oil Company in Africa . On the 21st April 2006 , my client and his wife and the only daughter were involved in a car accident along Lagos Ibadan Express Road , Lagos and all occupants of the vehicle perished in the accident.

Since then, I have made several inquiries to locate any of my client's relatives in your country but this has proved unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful efforts, I decided to search through the Internet, to locate any member of his family but to no avail.

I have decided to contact you to assist in repatriating the money my client deposited with one of the prime banks here in Nigeria before the bank confiscate the money or declared it unserviceable. Particularly, the Bank where my late client had deposited huge amount of USD22.500,000 (Twenty two Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States) as at 26th April 2006.

The need for your urgent cooperation became necessary as the Bank has issued me NOTICE TO PROVIDE THE NEXT OF KIN WITHIN 21 WORKING DAYS or have the Account Confiscated as Unserviceable and Abandoned. Since I have been unsuccessful to locate any of his relatives for the past years, I deem it wise and just to seek your consent and to present you to the bank as the Next of Kin to Mr.Fredrick M. Stein as you are a foreigner and from the same country of my client.

The bank will oblige payment to whosoever I will present as the Next of Kin provided I provide legal documentations which will entitle you to receive the fund. As the Financial Attorney to late Fredrick M. Stein,

I will obtain all the needed Legal Documents that will be used to back-up the claim in your favour. All I require from you is your honest co-operation and assurance that you will not cheat me when the fund gets into your bank account.. I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.

I propose to share the money with you in the following manner:
1.30% for myself
2.30% for yourself
3.20% will be given to any Charity Organization or Motherless Homes in 4.your country.

10% will be mapped out to cover our expenses.
If you accept to work with me for realization of the fund, I need your personal information as:
Full name:
Address:
Age:
Occupation
Mobile Number:
Your personal information will be used to obtain legal documents for the payment to your bank account.

Waiting for your urgent reply through my confidential Email address: associates@latinmail.com
Best Regards,

Barr.Barr. Okpara O.K Okpala( SAN}

Private Email:barr_okpara_okpala@latinmail.com
Mobile :



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