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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: "Stev Brown" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <brownstev692@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 09:06:54 -0700
Subject: FYI

Hello Dear,

My name is Mr. Stev Brown and I am a solicitor in London United Kingdom. My services include advising and supporting individuals, companies and organizations. I am also available to government departments as an advisory attorney.

I am the personal attorney to one late Dr. George Brumley Jr,an American Citizen, a Physician and a renowned personality who co-chaired several multinational corporations and lot of other indigenous companies both in Europe and African continents. Dr. George Brumley Jr died in a plane crash in 2003 along with his nuclei family.For more information, please visit: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

After a few unsuccessful attempts, I decided to make contact for a possible family member alive but to no avail for several years now. As the deceased's personal attorney, I have been mandated by the Private security and Finance company and the Bank where his funds and other family valuables was deposited under an insurance Bond coverage to provide the details of my deceased client's heir or provide any of his business associate alive for disbursement/claim of his numerous funds valued seventeen million five hundred thousand euros (€17,500,000.00) which has been in their custody and other important documents kept for safekeeping, hence I solicit for your assistance to present you as my late client business associate for this claim. Note there is no single risk involved in this transaction. Every logistics are in place to get this executed once you indicate your sincere interest to partner with me in this course. Please get back to me through my Email: …………….for more informati
on.

I look forward to hearing without delay.

Best regards,

Stev Brown

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