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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: "BARRISTER ROLAND" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barristerrolandchemberslaw@lawyer.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 14:39:40 +0800
Subject: Attention Dear Client

I'm Barrister Roland from Save Guard Company
please this letter is confidential and I hope you will understand this
letter, I work with a Save Guard Company there's fund here in our Chamber, this fund belongs to one of our client who passed away 5 months ago but he didn't have next of kin to this fund and this fund has been in our security system since he passed away, this man was from Russia he was a very rich business man so I want to do business with you, I want you to stand as the next of kin of this man, this fund will be transferred to you as the next of kin, to this man
 
Full name:
Date of Birth:
Address:
Country:
Gender:
Phone No:
Passport/ID number
 
please if you are ready to do this with me do let me know I will send to you the next of kin agreement filled with your information , so the fund will be release to you, and when that happen we will divide this fund by 50% for you and 50% for me, the amount in total is $3,500,000.00 Us Dollars,  Three Million five hundred thousand Us Dollars please if you can do this business with me please do get back to me ASAP.
                             barristerrolandchemberslaw@lawyer.com   
Kind Regard
Barrister Roland

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