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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: "Daniel Kelvin" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dankelvin014@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:15:47 +0100
Subject: Partnership Deal

Daniel Chamber Esq.
Associations of British Crown Court.
United Kingdom

Dear sir,

I believe you are a highly respected personality, considering the fact that I sourced your profile from a internet profile data base from your country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events. I am Barr.Daniel Kelvin, the attorney at law here in United Kingdom, he was a Gold Merchant and other chain of business in Middle East,Europe and America, who was Referred to as my client.

On the 27th of May 2013, my client and his wife and their three Children were involved in a car accident. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track His last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family, hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the management of the security company where is been deposited. These huge deposits were lodged particularly, with the "security company ''. where the deceased had a deposit valued at about $13,750,000.00 million dollars with them.

The Security company department has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 5 years now, then I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are from the same country with the late depositor so that the proceeds of a deposit valued at about $13,750,000.00 million dollars can be release to you and then you and I will share the money. 50% to me and 50% to you, I will procure all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I required is your honest and trust worthy to enable us seeing this deal through.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. And the way we are going to achieve this done is that you give me the following information below. What I need from you is to follow my directive and my instructions to enable us achieve this.

Your full names
Your age
Your address.
Private E-mail:
And private mobile for communication purpose

Best Regards,

Barrister. Daniel Kelvin.Esq

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