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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: "Ultimate Chambers" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wbuk01@katamail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 06:31:15 -0700
Subject: THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOU PLS READ.

Ultimate Chambers
190, rue Championnet
75876 Paris Cedex 18
Paris, France.

Hello,

My name is Barrister Kevin Brown of Ultimate Chambers, Paris, France. I am the Attorney to Late Engineer Peter Owen, who died of Cardiac arrest one year ago, until his death, he was a major Oil dealer around Asia, USA and Europe region.

As the Attorney of the Late Peter Owen, I am in possession of his WILL which he wrote before his death, is unfortunate he lost his wife and the only daughter Five years ago and that made him to changed his WILL, all his Estates was WILL to Charity homes, some of his funds WILL to the poor and his Assets of Fifteen Million Two Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars was WILL to you. I am contacting you because this your email is attached to the WILL and he made mentioned that you were his old friend but lost contact with you due to his tight business schedules.

To enable me forward the Assets information to you so that you can claim this funds, you are required to send me the following below details so that this Assets can be process in your name for immediate release to you as the only
beneficiary.

1. Your full names
2. Your address and cell phone number
3. A copy of your I.D card.

As soon as I receive this above info, your name will be process for the release of this Assets to you immediately.

Yours faithfully,

Barrister Kevin Brown
Ultimate Chambers.

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