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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: Barrister Tomas Jerry <balike011@gmail.com>
Reply-To: barristertomjerry@aol.com
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 10:54:58 +0200
Subject: Attention Sir.

Attention Sir.

I am Barrister Tomas Jerry,I got your contact through my personal
search.I know this message will come to you as a surprise based on the
fact that we don’t know each other.I am making this contact in respect
to my late client, he died in the kings cross station underground Bomb
blast in London.He is a national of Poland but spent all his business
years here in Benin Republic of west Africa. My client is a consultant
with foriegn companies on oil deal in many african oil countries and
he deposited some fund in a Security vault.

View this website for more details of the
bomb.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings.

Since the death of my client here, I have made enquiries to his
country embassy in order to locate any of his wife,children or
relatives and present him to the security company as his next of kin,
as I am the only person that has all the legal authority and power to
provide my client next of kin, but unfortunately all my legal
enquiries failed.

The security company sent me a routine notice, notifying me that I
have little time to provide his next of kin or they will have the fund
confiscated by their authority.Since I have failed in all the enquires
I made in order to locate my clients next of kin, I have decided after
several years of thought to look for a trusted and reliable foreigner
whom I will present to the security company as my clients next of kin
so that the fund will be released to him.It is risk free and very easy
to execute,If you can be trusted and willing to stand as my clients
next of kin, let me know immediately so that I will proceed.

I assure to back you up with every documents related to this
deposition, as the security company will require them from you for
confirmation, proving that you are really the next of kin. All you
need to do is to follow my advises and directions and then leave other
legal and official steps for me.We will discuss more details as we
proceed.if you have questions you may ask.

Yours faithfully,

Barrister Tomas Jerry.

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