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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: "Juan Anthonio Esq" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <juan.anthonio1@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 11:26:19 +0100
Subject: Waitting for your respond....


Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. It may surprise you receiving this letter from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us. My name is Juan Anthonio Esq., Personal Lawyer to Late Engr. Paul J., who worked in Libya for Thirteen year in Oil and Gas company; he died along with his family during the Libya revolution war in Tripoli May

2011.

My purpose of contacting you is for you to help secure the family trunk box left behind by my late client, to avoid it being confiscated or declared unserviceable by the security company where this Trunk Box/Diplomatic Personal Treasure, containing the sum $8,550 000.00 (Eight Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand US Dollars Only) deposited before his death with a Safe Keeping Company here in Spain, because of security and personal reasons he did not disclose the exact content of deposited Trunk Box to the SAFE HOUSE.

The security company has issued me a final notice to provide the next of kin or the vault will be declared and confiscated to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security as unclaimed, So far all my efforts to get a hold of someone related to my client has proved abortive. Hence, I have contacted you personally for your understanding. I am actually asking for your consent

to present you to the security company as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late client's deposit; since you share the same last name with Late Mr. Paul J., so that the deposited family trunk box would be release to you. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us achieve this transaction.

I wish to point out that I want 10% of this money to be shared among the charity organizations, while the remaining 90% is shared equally between us. This transaction is entirely risk free. I will use my position as the client’s attorney to guarantee the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please contact me via E-mail: juan.anthonio@email.com



The intended transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law. However, if this business proposal offends your moral ethics, do accept my sincere apology.

If on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me, kindly get back to me with your interest for further explanations, I will only require trust and confidentiality which is the bedrock in every transaction.

Kindest Regards
Juan Anthonio Esq.
Principal Attorney

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