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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: "Ten Bas" <tenbasmozz@gmail.com>
Reply-To: tenbasmoz@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 11:13:47 -0800
Subject: Re: A CALL FOR TRUST

Dear Sir/Madam


This is a personal letter directed to you and I request it should be treated as such. I am Ten Bas, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late MR.MARK , who died in a car crash with his immediate family on the 5th of November, 2007.


I have written several letters to the embassies with intent to locate any of his extended relatives who shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail. More so, I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing laws by the bank in which my client deposited the sum of $9.8m Untied States dollars.


The board of directors of the company now adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of his money within 25 official working days or forfeit the money as an abandoned fund. The company had planned to invoke the abandoned property decree of 1996 to confiscate the funds after the expiration of the period given to me, but after an investigation on the finance company, I found out that some members of the company wants to divert this fund into their private accounts for their own selfish interest and only want to use the excuse of my inability to produce my client’s relative, to achieve the goal.


By virtue of my closeness to the deceased and his immediate family, I am very much aware of my client’s financial standing and had thought it unprofitable for his funds to be shared by these individuals while my client would have wished that part of his money goes to charity. As a matter of fact, I have reasoned professionally and I feel it will be legally proper to present you as the next of kin to my deceased client as 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 the reason of you bearing the same name with my deceased client, occasioned my contacting you to crave your participation and co-operation, that I may, with your consent, present you to the "trustee" bank as my late client’s surviving family member so as to enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin to my deceased client, so that the proceeds of this Bank account valued at Nine million Eight Hundred thousand United States dollars only (9.8million) can be paid to you, before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this deposit is lodged.


Therefore, to facilitate the immediate reprofiling of this fund, you need first to contact me via my email address; tenbasmoz@gmail.com , signifying your interest and as soon as I obtain your confidence, I will intimate you with the complete details with directions on how to submit an application to the bank.


However, I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is 100% risk and hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made for the smooth completion of this transaction since I have all vital documents that would be requested that would confer you the legal right to make this claim.


I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. If this proposal is acceptable by you, get in touch with me through the above contact details for better confidentiality and send to me your own contact details to enable us discuss further about this transaction and I do hope you will not at any time take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you also would wish you treat this matter with the utmost confidentiality it deserves. Reply me at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely,
Ten Bas Attorney At Law
E-mail: tenbasmoz@gmail.com

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