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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: "JAMES ARCH" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <archjames@lawyer.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:31:59 +0200
Subject: PLEASE READ !^TH

VERY CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Sir,

Let this business proposal I am putting forward to you herein not be a surprise to you. I know you will ponder on how I got your Contact and why you.

I got your email address while searching for a Business minded person who I can transact a discreet business that I want to introduce herein to you.

Before I continue, I am Barrister Arch James Legal practitioner in South Africa.

I had a client Al Yadah Fayad ( An Arab Based in South Africa for Gold Merchant) Diseased who died in a Car crash with his wife Rakiya Fayad and two children in Cape Town in 2004. seven years ago.

Before the death of Al Yadah and his family, he had an account with a Bank in the UK (To be disclosed when Due) with the amount of £12.4Million (Twelve Million, four hundred thousand Great British Pound).

Al Yadah Fayad was a a Very Successful Gold Merchant who also invested much in Oil during the Gulf War. He was an Arab millionaire. Originally from Kuwait.

Since his death, as the Family attorney, the Bank concern have instructed me to present a next of kin of late Al Yadah as I am in the Position to know his relative because in the Banks record, Al Yadah’s next of kin is his Late wife Rakiya. I have tried to locate his family members but to no avail and no one has come forward to me that he or she is related to him.

As you may know, I cannot present my self because the Bank will not accept as I am the family Attorney but who else I may present will be accepted.

At this Juncture, I have no option than to look for a Trust Worthy person to present to the Bank so that the Bank can payout the £12.4million to him or her. As I have nothing to gain leaving the money in the Bank.

Based on this, I decide to contact you so that I can present you to the Bank and get the money pay out to you then we can share the money 50% for you, 40% for me and 10% to cover any incidental expenses that you and me may incur in the process of the money being transferred to your account.

Please this deal is a 100% risk free and simple but confidential. I will put all the legal documents together for the fund to be transferred to your account with no legal implication.

Please if this is acceptable to you, Kindly get back to me with your Full Names, Telephone numbers, and address and if your know that your Bank account is not healthy enough to receive such fund, please you may turn me down by not responding because we need someone who has a healthy Bank account that receiving such money will not raise an eye brow.

Waiting to hear from you. Reply to: archjames@lawyer.com

Thank you very much

Barrister Arch James (archjames@lawyer.com)


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