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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Barr. Festus Keyamo Chambers" <barrister@onet.net>
Reply-To: barrfestuskchambers@aol.co.uk
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 17:56:27 +0000
Subject: BARRISTER AT LAW!

Barrister Festus Keyamo (Esq)
Legal Practitioners
Festus Keyamo Chambers.

Contact Us:
Address: 1, Festus Keyamo Lane, off Gbagada Expressway,
Behind Hotel Newcastle,
Anthony Village, Lagos, Nigeria
Tel: +234-90-989-3XXXX Tel/Fax: +234-80-506-6XXXX
E-mail: barrfestuskchambers@aol.co.uk


Barrister Festus Kayamo (LLM, LLB)
Solicitor & Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
ASSOCIATES:
H-U-Mariobi LLB (Hons.) & B L
Barrister of Law (Solicitor & Advocate)
Theo A. Obi LLM (Hons.) B L & BA (Hons.)
Barrister of Law (Solicitor & Advocate)
Dennis Okoroji LLB (Hons.) & B L

Ref: ESQ/FGN-015/2000-VOL.1/2015
Date: Year, 2015

Dear Foreign Esteem Beneficiary,

RE: REQUEST TO STAND AS YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TO BUNKER THE KERBALS
UPHOLDING AND SITTING ON THE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND TRANSFER WHICH I
HAVE DICTATED THE REASONS AND HAVE THE SOLUTION TO YOUR FUND RELEASE
PREDICAMENT.

With profound respect, I crave your indulgence hoping you will have a
nice time to go through this letter and get back to my office as
expeditiously as possible. However, I wish to bring to your notice
that I have spotted your Contract/Inheritance payment file under the
custody of the evil politicians before I was advocate to make this
serious and urgent contact with you.

In my personal capacity I had contested and insisted that justice be
made on your transaction given the fact that you have lost total
confidence in the sincerity of the government towards release of your
payment to you, due to lack of transparency characterized by some
bottle-neck process and dishonesty of principal officers and of course
interception and interference of some unidentified group of individual
impostors claiming who they are not.

I submitted application to the attention of the authorities (The
Presidency, Finance Minister and Central Bank Governor), for immediate
and final consideration on your payment file, as such to apply
modalities to have your funds wired directly to your designated
account through wire transfer or through cash payment Option (Courier
Cash Delivery).

I only need your consent to enable me harmonize this arrangement
through the appropriate authorities, by this way there will be
absolute elimination of any form inn or outside Nigeria interferences,
and policies capable of causing some unwanted hindrances. I advise
that you be focused and follow up with this transaction until your
funds is wired to your account through either of the two banks or
through cash payment option (Courier Cash Delivery).

In a nut shell, mine is a law firm highly connected to the office of
the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I found out (having
known about your pending payment from the Government Gazettes) that
some unscrupulous officials and their cronies are frustrating you so
that you will forget your contract fund, hence they will divert it on
their own private account.

Specifically, my request now is that you engage my services to be your
Authorized Attorney. That is to say, engage the services of my
Chambers so that I will pursue and ensure your contract/inheritance
fund where treated under the Constitutional Conduct of West African
States (Ecowas) wherever it is originated in Africa to bring Logical
Justice to its payment into your nominated Bank Account without any
further delays.

Be informed that being highly connected to the Government of the day,
I understand the politics involve in paying foreign contractors and
inheritances fund here in West African Continent. I presume, people
contact you regularly from within and outside Nigeria, YES you will
always be contacted (Even While Working With Me) as long as the
records here shows your payment is still pending. My main objective of
contacting you is to know what will be my INTEREST, as soon as this
money is release to you by my office. Perhaps, if we need to work
together, you must ensure you ignores ever other faxes, email and
calls, so that we can work together without anybody jeopardizing my
effort. Any Bank charges (if any again) will be deducted.

Get back to me; reconfirm your Direct Telephone Numbers, Fax Numbers
including your Contract or Inheritance Details as well as Bank
Information. Keep this arrangement between us absolutely secret, as I
do not want to be accused by evil politicians of taking advantage of
my Chambers involvement with present Government to help you. It will
be practically impossible to get your money without due process
properly executed by a Financial Attorney well connected to the
Government of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, (President, Federal
Republic of Nigeria). Even if you do not accept my offer, I will
sincerely advise you to find time yourself to come and regularize your
defective instead of fruitless exchange of fax/email messages with
offices here and hereafter. For prompt action, send your reply to this
E-mail: barrfestuskchambers@aol.co.uk Tel: +234-90-989-3XXXX Tel/Fax:
+234-80-506-6XXXX.

If I get your acceptance today, I and my Chambers will swing or
commence action with immediate effect from every ambit of law for
legal justification on your foreign payment to complete the entire
credit facility instructions.

I look forward hearing from you to give full access to my telephone
numbers for more correspondences.

Thanks and GOD bless you!

Yours Sincerely,

BARR. FESTUS KEYAMO (ESQ) LLM
Int’l Financial Attorney & Legal Consultants
Solicitor, Attorney, Legal Practitioner
Festus Keyamo Chambers
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Address: 1, Festus Keyamo Lane, off Gbagada Expressway,
Behind Hotel Newcastle, Anthony Village, Lagos, Nigeria
D/Tel: +234-90-989-3XXXX
Tel/Fax: +234-80-506-6XXXX



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