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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: "Newton Barbour" <info@info.com>
Reply-To: newton_barbour1009@live.com
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 23:13:23 -0200
Subject: Confirm (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?_=A3_18?=,500,000.00 Million Pounds)

Hello,

Since this e-mail might came as a surprise there will be temptation to ignore
it as not serious or real but i urge you to be open minded and bail me out
before i go any further it is proper that i introduce myself to you,I am
Newton Barbour , British and a staff of Natwest Bank plc London.I am in the
accounts department and i to get across to you an urgent and profitable
business proposal , I had done a deep internet search and sent you my first e-
mail after a careful thought that you will be capable of handling this
transaction, carefully explained below :

The sum of ( £ 18,500,000.00 Million Pounds)has been floating as unclaimed
since 2000 in my bank as all efforts to get across the relatives of our
client who deposited the money had hit the stones.There is this immigrant Mr.
Kurt Kahle who ran a private business school was based in the U.K who happens
to be one of our very good clients. On the 31st of July 2000, Mr. Kurt
Kahle,his wife ,their Son Micheal all died in the air France Concord plane
crash bound for New York in their plan for a world cruise.

Click on the link :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

All attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless.My position here at my
office requires me to investigate and I therefore made further investigations
and discovered that Mr. Kurt Kahle did not declare any next of kin or
relation in all his official documents,including his bank deposit paperwork
in my bank.According to the British Law. The money will revert to the
ownership of the British government if nobody applies to claim the funds.

To avoid this money being sent to the British treasury as unclaimed funds,I
have decided to seek your assistance to have you stand as his next of kin so
that the said funds ( £ 18,500,000.00 million pounds),would be released in
your name as the next of kin and paid into your account.All documents and
proof that will have you claim this fund will be forwarded to you without any
stress upon your response to this mail more soon,i want to inform you that i
have unanimously agreed to offer you ( £7.2M ) of the total sum for the
assistance and role you are going to play in this transaction,(£2.8 M )will
be given to charity organisations in your country with your supervision while
theremaining will be for me.
Please send us your Names,Telephone No,Address and your fax number in your
reply to this business transaction .
I await for your urgent response to this email .(newton_barbour1009@live.com)

Best Regards,
Mr. Newton Barbour

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