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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: "Irwin Mitchell Esq" <irwin@esq.net>
Reply-To: irwinm.esq@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 10:34:19 +0200
Subject: Re:Information



Let me start of by introducing myself to you, I am Barrister Irwin
Mitchell Esq from Irwin Mitchell LLP Legal advocates here in London,
United Kingdom (UK) I have been working as a solicitor here for over
20 years. I am the attorney for the son of Libyan leader Col Mommar
Gaddafi. I am sure you must have heard about the revolution in Libya
in 2011.

as you can see on the following links:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/27/gaddafi-family-assets-frozen-queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WCp5rxNa1k

To the reason of my writing to you. As a trusted aid and personal
lawyer to the son of the Libyan leader Col Mommar Gaddafi. We have
secure the total of $450 million united states dollars from excess
crude oil account, this fund was pulled out on the heat of this crises
rocking Libya. The said fund was deposited as a trust fund in one of
the big bank in United Kingdom (UK) which I will let you know in due
cause.

Now that Col Gaddafi is long dead and his regime has come to an end. I
have now received instruction from my client Saif Al Islam Gaddafi the
second son of Col. Gaddafi to look for a partner to secure the money
from the bank security Vault. This will enable him have some thing to
fall on, if the inevitable happens.

We are ready to let you have 30% of the total sum, while I will have
10% and 60 % will be kept by you for my client or even help in
investing for him pending when things stabilize.
I have all the papers to help us in getting the fund from the security
company.
Please if you are interested in this transaction, urgently respond so
that I can brief you in details.

But if you are not interested, please treat the email as it never come to
you.

This is confidential and must not be discussed by the third party or
unauthorized person(s).Looking forward to hearing from you.

Email:irwinm.esq@gmail.com

Sincerely,
Irwin Mitchell Esq



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