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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: "James Kessler Qc" <brown_company@aol.co.uk>
Reply-To: Jameskesslerqc1957@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:42:39 +0300
Subject: Good Day


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Good Day,
I am James Kessler Qc, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr. Allan hereinafter referred to as my client. My client and his immediate family members died in a car in East London on the 5th of November 2011. He was a Sub-Comptroller working with Chevron Texaco Oil here in the United Kingdom and Left behind a deposit of Ten Million Million six hundred British Pound Sterling only (10.6million) with a bank. I have written several letters to the embassy with intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail.
I have professional reasons to use a legal means to present a next of kin of my deceased client. This is legally possible and would be done in accordance with the laws of the land. On this note I decided to search for a credible person and finding that you bear a similar last name, I contact you, that with your consent, present you to the "Trustee" as my late client's family members as to enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client. Please get in touch with me by my alternative email (
jameskesslerqc01@yahoo.com
)
Regards.
James Kessler Qc.
Serle Court .
6 New Square Lincoln 's
Inn London UK WC2A 3QS
+447031950853


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