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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: "Sir. David Agbantou, Esq" <lmmemarlne@y7mail.com>
Reply-To: dagbantou@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 08:11:40 -0500
Subject: Date: 03/26/2014


Date: 03/26/2014


For Your Urgent Attention!!


My name is Sir. David Agbantou, Esq., a lawyer from the Republic of
Benin. I am
contacting because of your family name, which happen to be the same with a
deceased client of mine from your country in the person of Engineer Vladimir.
Given your family name, I believe there is a family ties with you and my late
client, hence I contacted you. Mr. Vladimir who lived here in my country with
the wife and their son. He worked with an oil company here. Unfortunately, he
died in a car accident with his wife and their only son in 2007.


Because of the lack of a beneficiary to receive the legacy of my late client
worth Seven Million Euros in a term deposit account with a bank here, the bank
is treating to confiscate the legacy as an inheritance without a beneficiary.
Given the fact that you have the same family with my late client and come from
the same country, I seek your consent to present you to the bank where he had
left the 7,000,000 Euro as heir to my late client. The bank wanted to
seize this
heritage last year, but I used his office as the lawyer to the deceased in
asking for more time to look for the extended family of my late client.


With a person like you with the same information as my late client's
family and
place of origin, once I present you to the bank as heir to my late client, the
bank will definitely release the inheritance to you under my legal
grantee that
you are relative to my late client.


Kindly get back to me as soon as possible with your consent so that I will
proceed with the due process.Your prompt response will be very helpful.


Thanks for your time.


Sincerely,


Sir. David Agbantou, Esq.
Telephone +229-6460-0616
E-mail: agbantouchambers@gmail.com





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