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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: Barr.Ellis Brian <ellisbrian1515@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 03:49:56 +0000
Subject: I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU

Attn:

It is with heartfelt hope that I write to seek your co-operation and
assistance in the context
stated below, I am Barrister Ellis Brian, the personal Attorney to the
late
Mr. Pradesh Kumar. I got your contact through the help of directories
from a
newsletter of a regular magazine, having noted the confidence reposed
on
your person by the sponsor of the recommendation.

My late client was the Chief Executive Officer of {Shell Gas Direct,
UK} for
10 years and he was
retired on the 30th day of September 2002. After a month, my client and
his
entire family died on
their way to a Conference in an Automobile crash on the 13th day of
November
2002. Before his death my client had a total sum of $15,652,000.00(USD)
with
a Finance House hoping of transferring the fund to his country {ICICI
BANK
INDIA} after his retirement as soon as he comes back from the
conference.

According to the {DEED OF WILL} made be my late client, He wrote {DEED
OF
WILL} that if anything should happen to him, that I should make sure I
locate any of his family member. Since I have been unsuccessful in
locating
the relatives for more than 3 years now I seek your consent to act as
his
relative so I can present you as the next of kin of the deceased since
your
name relate to his name (Kumar) my late client name or for the fact that
you
hail from the same geographical region. I agree to pay you 45% of the
fund
as the account owner, 55% for me and
other officials in my Chambers.

Please do provide the following information for the application
processing.

1. Your full name:
2. Contact address:
3. Email:
4. Phone number:
5. Mobile number:
6. Age (Date of Birth):

All this information will enable me write an application to the bank on
your
behalf. And present you
to the bank as the real next of kin to my late client. All required is
your
honest cooperation to enable us seeing this business successful. I
guarantee
that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will
protect
you from any breach of the law.

Pradesh Kumar was a very good man and it is not wise for me to allow
his
hard earned wealth to be confiscated by the greedy directors of the
finance
house.

Thanks and God bless.
Barr. Ellis Brian (ESQ).
Ellis & Associates
16 Hare wood Place
Hanover Square
London W1S 1BX
Telephone: +44-703-1980083

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