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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: Don <don.atwood@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:33:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Your co-operation is required




Attention: Friend,

 

I am Mrs.Rosalia
Bastarreche from Spain
married to Antonio Bastarreche for seven years and blessed with two kids, I
am the manager bills and exchange at the foreign remittance department of deutsche bank
here in Spain.
I have a business proposal which I believe that will be a very Good opportunity
for both of us so I decided to contact you on this business opportunity in our
bank, the business is this I discovered an abandoned sum of 10 Million US
dollars ( Ten million united states dollars) in our
safety deposit vault that belongs to one of our foreign customer, Who died along with
his entire family on 12th December 2008 in a ghastly motor accident
along Barcelona express way.

 

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because the management can not
release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately, I learnt that all his
family died alongside with him at the motor accident leaving nobody behind for
the claim. Since you
have the same surname with this deceased customer you can easily make this deal
with me,
I will give you all the secret information’s of this deposit which will help
you to claim this money as the next of kin. it is therefore upon this discovery
that I decided to make this business proposal to you and help facilitate the
release  of this money to you  as the next of kin to the deceased
since nobody is coming for it  and I don’t want this money to go into the
banks treasury as unclaimed
funds or declared to the government of Spain, once this is done the
government of Spain will confiscate the funds, which is not good for both of us
instead its better for us to do the deal and map out something for charity from
the money and share the rest .

 

I agreed that 40 % of this money will be for you as a foreign partner,
in respect to your acceptance to do this business with me, 60 % would be for me
and my family 

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this
fund to your account as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as the next
of kin of the deceased indicating your interest of claim of your inherited
funds, upon receipt of your reply through my indicated email, I will send to
you by fax or email the text of the application which you will send to the
bank.

 

 

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is a hitch
free as all required arrangements have been made perfectly. At this moment you
should feel free to contact me through email or through my home telephone
indicated as soon as you receive this mail.

You should understand that this should be kept very confidential, let it
be between you, me and my husband only. This is the only way we can achieve
success.

 

I will level the whole arrangement here in the bank for the transfer to
be approved immediately.

Please
take note, my Husband is the only one that I have discussed this business with
and we both agreed to do this business with you, he is always around to take
your calls whenever I am at work or not at home, because of my position in the bank my
official phone might be monitored so I think that its better to be discussing
with my husband on the phone if I am not home, while I should be arranging
everything in the bank for the successful clearance and transfer of this fund.

 

Thank
you very much for your attention.

 

Until I
hear from you my dreams are resting squarely on your shoulders.

 

Best
regards,

Mrs.Rosalia
Bastarreche  

Manager Foreign Remittance Department Deutsche bank Madrid Spain.

Private
Email:  mrs.rosalia.bastarreche@gmail.com

Official Email:
rosalia.bastarreche@db-spn.com

Website:
www.db.com


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