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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: "Barrister Allens Stevens" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barr.allens_steven@counsellor.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:40:13 +0530
Subject: GREETINGS!!!

Dear sir/Madam


My name is Barrister Allens Stevens, I live in United Kingdom, I was the Attorney to Engr. Millard Croston Who was an expatriate /oil contractor who worked and live in Europe for many years, he died on the 26th of March 2011as a result of heart failure as said by his Doctor.

Two months before his death, he deposited the sum of 42,000,000.00 £ (Forty-two Million Pounds only) in a fixed deposit account with a Bank here in United Kingdom, and now the bank have mandated me as his Attorney to present any of his family heir/inheritor for claims before the deposit gets confiscated by the United Kingdom Government as none claimed deposit, and since he has already told me when he was alive that he has no child and that he has divorced his wife many years ago and decided to remain single for the rest his life.

Against this backdrop, my contact in the bank has advised me to bring someone for this claim so I decided to search for someone else whom I will present to the bank as the next of kin to Engr. Milliard Croston to claim this deposit.

With my position as his Attorney, I have removed all his bank documents from his personal safe in his house, I have also finalize all modalities to go to the court and swear an Affidavit of change of ownership of funds, and to procure/secure all the clearance documents that will enable the release of this funds to you and with the help of one of the manager in the bank (my contact) who is with me in this deal and having all the required documents in my position, I will now place your name as the next of kin to my late client and prepare every relevant documents that will assist your claims and I will also back you up before the bank as the bank officials knows me very well as the personal Attorney to the late Engr. Croston. Note that there is no atom of risk in connection to this transaction as I have worked out all modalities to complete the transaction successfully having all the required documents,and with the help of my contact in the bank who is aware and also will have his shares from this deposit, i

If you accept the above, I will discuss with you on the sharing modalities and I will give you all the detailed information of this deposit.Once again, if this proposal does offend your moral values please pardon me otherwise reply through the above email box.

Best regards

Barrister Allen Stevens
barr.allens_steven@counsellor.com

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