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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: judyg <judyg@tbinet.bm>
Reply-To: judyg <simonndota@zoho.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:25:46 -0300
Subject: Seeking for your kind assistance.




My name is Barrister
Simon Ndota a legal practitioner based in Johannesburg and the personal
attorney to later Mr. Randolph Marriott, a Foreign National who died along with
his wife and two sons in a robbery attack in their farm settlement home in
Johannesburg, South Africa. My client was a successful and an accomplished
family man who made enough fortune before his untimely death. Since then I have
made several inquiries through his Embassy to locate any of his extended
relatives but this exercise has proved unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful
attempts, I decided to trace his relatives to locate any member of his family,
not much progress was recorded.

Mr.
Randolph Marriott was an influential wealthy businessman, a diamond magnet here
in Johannesburg and he left behind a deposit of Ten Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars (USD$10.500, 000.00USD) in his domiciliary bank
account in a commercial bank here in South Africa. After the death of Randolph
Marriott, his bankers contacted me as his attorney to provide his next of kin
who should inherit his funds. The board of directors of his bank adopted a
resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of
these funds or forfeit the money to the bank as an abandoned property. The
bankers had planned to invoke the abandoned property decree of 1996 to
confiscate the funds after the expiration of the period given to me.

Fortunately,
in the verge of my search, I came across your name through a consultancy firm
in your Chamber of Commerce & Industry that provided me with your reputable
data. Being convinced that you might provide clue to my search. I therefore
decided to contact you with these facts before me because of the similarities.
By virtue of my closeness to the deceased and his immediate family, I am very
much aware of my client’s financial standing and the bank account he operates.

I have
reasoned very professionally and I feel it will be legally proper to present
you as the next of kin to my deceased client, so that you can be paid the funds
left in his bank account. I therefore seek your consent to present you as the
next of kin to the deceased since you are at an advantage. The proceeds of this
bank account valued at USD$10.5Million US Dollars can be paid to you. We shall
both share the funds equally, 50% for me and 50% to you. I shall assemble all
the necessary legal documents that will be used to back up our claim. All I
require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing the deal through.

NOTE:
PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME BY EMAIL: SIMONNDOTA@ZOHO.COM FOR PRIVACY AND
CONFIDENTIALITY TO ENABLE US DISCUSS FURTHER

I
guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.

Yours
Sincerely,
Barrister
Simon Ndota



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