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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: Morris Renny <msirene006@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 18:59:00 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!!


Good day to you

My name is Morris Renny, a solicitor and an Advocate of the supreme court of Malaysia; I worked as a personal Attorney to late Eng. LEROY COOPER, a foreign Oil expatriate with PETROLIAM NASIONAL BERHAD (PETRONAS) Malaysia. He died including his wife and only son in a plane crash on April 21st 2009.

I have made several inquiries as to locate any of his extended relatives, but all proved abortive, and his account of EUR26.8m (twenty six million, eight hundreds thousand Euros) with CIMB BANK MALAYSIA have been unclaimed since then due to unavailability of his relatives to claim his fund.

Now the crux of this letter is that a 14 days ultimatum has been given to me by the bank to provide his relative or they will have the account confiscated if am unable to provide any of his relative within the next 14 days.

My purpose of contacting you is for us to team up and make the money ours instead of allowing it to be confiscated by the bank since no body is coming for the claim. I am here to seek your consent to present you to the bank and tell them that you are the relative of my late client so that they will process the payment and transfer the fund into your bank account, then after the transfer we will share it 60% for me and 40% for you

I will provide the necessary information to be used in convincing the bank that you are the relative of late LEROY COOPER, Whoever I present to the bank will claim the money, since I am his personal Counsel before his death; the bank knows me, because I represented him in all his banking dealings with the bank when he was alive. And this will be easy to achieve since both of you are foreigners.

So all i require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us seal this deal through. I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of law. Upon successful conclusion of this project; you will be compensated with 40% of the total fund, while 60% will be for me.

Get back to me through my private email: msirene121@lawyer.com<mailto:msirene121@lawyer.com>

I look forward to hearing from you soonest,
Morris Renny (Esq.)



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