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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: "Mr. Michael R" <info@bryanparris.com>
Reply-To: m.rosenfield@advocates-lawyers.com
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:14:05 -0700
Subject: High Piority.

Date: 08/04/2016

Dear Sir,

I am Barrister Wax Michael Rosenfield, a Solicitor at law. I am the personal Attorney to Mr. Magnus, a Foreign National, who was in private business in Iraq, on the 14TH Of April 2001, my client who was a widower and is only child, were involved in suicide attack, unfortunately non of them survived

Since then, I had made several enquiries trying to locate my client’s relatives; this yielded no worthwhile results just as my effort had been unsuccessful. After these unrewarding attempts, I resorted to using the internet to track his SURNAME and believing too, that by this means I may be lucky enough to find his relative or relatives, hence my contacting YOU. Even if you are not related to my late client, all that matters is that you have a common SURNAME. We can get this money for ourselves. I have contacted you to assist with the securing the money and valuable assets left behind by my client before the obnoxious laws guiding the operations of the Financial Firm will recommend/qualify the deposit for confiscation upon been declared unserviceable as this huge deposit was lodged as family treasures. Bearing in mind that the deposit had a date of redemption, which is already expired. However, the extension on the mandate became necessary because I communicated the sad news of my clients death to the Financial Firm. This will be due in a few days from today. And except I present the Next-of-Kin it will be then impossible to ever make the claim hereafter.

The deceased had a Deposit valued Twenty Six Million, Nine Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$26.9M), the only qualification to make reasonable and safe claim is to present YOU as legitimate Next- of-Kin, which your SURNAME will supports. The Financial Firm had duly notified me, the deposited Fund will be automatically confiscated Ten-Working days after the period of grace granted

Since I had been unsuccessful in locating my late clients relatives for over 10years. I now seek your consent to present you as the Next-of-Kin of the deceased. So that the proceeds of this fund valued at (US$26.9M) can be released to you. Then YOU and I can share; 60% in my favour and 40% to you. I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up the claim in your favour. All I require is your honest/sincere co-operation to enable us see this deal through in a couple of days.

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

Best Regards

Michael Rosenfield
Michael & Co
50-52 Chancery Lane London United Kingdom WC2A 1HL
Legal Practitioner
Financial Consultant/Investors

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