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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: juan pablo <juanpabloesq@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:38:05 +0000
Subject: CONTACT ME ASAP

Dear Sir/Madam,

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. It may surprise you receiving this letter from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us. My name is Dr. Juan Pablo Esq., (Spanish Lawyer and Doctor in Law) a personal Attorney to my Late client, an expatriate engineer who has worked with the Mining and Smelting Company (Asturiana de Zinc S.A. Spain).

My purpose of contacting you is for you to help me to secure his funds deposited with Spanish Bank before he died, to avoid it being confiscated or declared as unclaimed by the Bank. The fund value is €19.500, 000.00 (Nineteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand €UROS) $22,951.11 US Dollars, this money was deposited by my late client before he passed away with her wife in train bombing in Madrid Spain on the 11th March 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3500452.stm <https://deref-mail.com/mail/client/A5a4WjnISz0/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2F3500452.stm> , he left the fund with no Will and up till today his relatives remained unknown.

As his personal attorney, the bank has issued me a final notice to contact his relative’s or his next of kin or else the money will be declared as unclaimed and it will be diverted to the Government’s Account. So far all my efforts to get a hold of someone related to my late client have been unsuccessful. Since this account is secret and there is no one left to claim the fund. I am actually asking for your consent to present you to the Bank as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late client's fund so that the fund will be released to you as his next of kin as you have the same Surname. All the legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next of Kin will be provided in the appropriate ministries. All I require is your honest cooperation and absolute confidentiality in order to guarantee successful.

I wish to point out that I want 5% of this money to be shared among the Charity Organizations, while the remaining 95% is shared equally between us. This transaction is entirely risk free. I will use my position as the client’s personal attorney to guarantee the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please contact me via

E-mail: brjuanpabloesq@consultant.com<https://deref-mail.com/mail/client/b67Rz91xBN8/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fmg.mail.yahoo.com%2Fneo%2Fb%2Fcompose%3Fto%3Dbrjuanpabloesq%40consultant.com> upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand more on this transaction.

The intended transaction will be processed under legitimacy, which will protect me and you from any violation of law. If this business proposal offends your moral ethics, do accept my sincere apology but if on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me, please kindly contact me with your interest to enable me start the process of claim immediately. Also be kind to let me know if you are not interested so that I can further my search to another Citizen.

Kindest Regards,

Dr. Juan Pablo (Esq)

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