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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: Michael Rogers <barr.michaelrogers2016@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 19:47:52 +0000
Subject: hi


hi,
I am, Barrister Michael Rogers, a solicitor at law. I am the personal Attorney to an Airplane Engineer,a national of your country. Him, his wife and their three children were involved in the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, flight MH370, had 239 people on-board from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 /March / 2014. when air traffic control staff lost contact with it,that All occupants of the Flight unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made several inquiries to locate any of my late client relatives or family members, but I could not succeed. Please, I contacted you to assist me transfer out the US$6million that the deceased deposited with bank. Because the bank were He made these deposit of US$6million, issued me a notice today,that they will confiscate His account within the next ten official bank working days if I do not provide any next of kin to Inherit the money.

Please, All I require is your honest cooperation to work with me. I will give you more details as soon as you reply this message. Provide me your mobile telephone number so that I will call You.

With Regards.
Mr. Michael Rogers.







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