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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: "Mr.Jeff Paulson" <jeff.paulson@accountant.com>
Reply-To: info_Principalassurance@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:12:41 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: I await your response




Principal Assurance
DESPACHO DE ABOGADO
CP, # AVDA 1 PLAZA MAYOR,
28011 MADRID-SPAIN
Fax: +34 917 692 952
E-mail.jeffpaulson54@yahoo.co.uk



Attention : Sir/Madam,



I am Jeff Paulson, Principal Assurance Manager for the (UBS AG) Union Bank
of Switzerland . I posted this mail to you purposely from Spain for the
sake of confidentiality. I am getting in touch with you regarding the
Estate of a deceased client with similar last name and an investment
placed under our Bank management 7years ago. I would respectfully request
that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the
integrity of the information you may come by as a result of this mail. I
contact you independently and no one is informed of this communication. In
2004, the subject matter, who share the last name with you, came to our
bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division.
He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 9.35 million United
States dollars, which he wished to have us invest on his behalf.


Based on my advice, we spun the money around various opportunities and
made attractive margins for our first months of operation, the accrued
profit and interest stood at this point at over 11million United States
Dollars. In mid 2008, he instructed that the principal sum (9.35M) be
liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash
payments in Spain . We got in touch with a specialist Bank in Spain the
Banco Santander who agreed to receive this money for a fee and make cash
available to him. However Banco Santander got in touch with us last year
that this money has not been claimed. On further enquiries we found out
that he involved in an accident in France , which means he died intestate.
He has no next of kin before he died and that is the reason I am writing
you because you share the same last name.


What I propose is that since I have exclusive access to his file, you will
be made the beneficiary of these funds. My bank will contact you informing
you that money has been willed to you. On verification, which will be the
details I make available to my bank, my bank will instruct Banco Santander
to make payments to you. You do not have to have known him. I know this
might be a bit heavy for you but please trust me on this. For all your
troubles I propose that we split the money in half. In the banking circle
this happens every time. The other option is that the money will revert
back to the state. Nobody is getting hurt; this is a lifetime opportunity
for us. I hold the KEY to these funds, and as a Swiss National we see so
much cash and funds being re-assigned daily. I would want us to keep
communication for now strictly by email.


Please, I am a family man; I have a wife and children. I send you this
mail not without a measure of fear as to the consequences, but I know
within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and
riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I
have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence.
If we can be of one accord, we should act swiftly on this. Please get back
to me on any of these my personal email addresses;
jeffpaulson54@yahoo.co.uk


I await your response.

Mr.Jeff Paulson.


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