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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: "IALC" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mdc0001112@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 04:31:08 -0400
Subject: Please let me know you receive this message.

Greetings,
I am Barrister Krishnan and my surname is Al Qassimi, an attorney at law based here in UAE, though a Southern Sudanese from the city of Juba but based here in UAE as a lawyer, it’s my desire for a partner that made me to contact you for us to know each other and see how we will work together for a mutual cooperation, please let me explain the main reason I contacted you in the first place, around February 2012 my client, nevertheless a British citizen contacted my law firm here in Dubai for a legal services ranging from cross-border transactions, direct investments and marketing within the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council and more particularly the UAE and the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Then I advises him on oil business related legal issues, negotiating, developing and implementing oil investment strategies here in the UAE, the Kingdom of Bahrain and other GCC countries we were trying to negotiate too, and within a few months later he made a fixed deposit for amount valued at 143,580,422.63 USD made from a UK Bank and unto a Bank here in UAE. This fund was sent here in UAE to be used for setting up his GAS PLANT PROJECT we negotiated in Bahrain Kingdom and here in United Arab Emirates. Sadly he died on the 7th of August, 2012 in a car accident along with his family which include his wife and 2 daughters died and even till now, I have been unable to locate any of his relatives.
 
Therefore, I want to know if you will act as his distance cousin and I will present you to the Bank as his distance cousin because I told the Bank yesterday that I contacted a private investigative firm in United Kingdom to assist in the quick search for his relatives and I am very optimistic that soonest they will find his relative for me to present to claim the funds in the Bank, please if you are interested in this deal kindly let me know you are interested so that I will tell the Bank I have found his relative and its you then after they release the funds to you we will share it between us, I hope you understand me?
Insha Allah.
 
Barrister Krishnan.

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