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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: "Martin Gomez" <paulmartingomez@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:14:44 +0100
Subject: Lawyer Business Proposal

Hello Dear,


I am Paul Martin Gómez a Spanish Lawyer. A personal Attorney to Late Mr.

Ramsingh. Firstly I must solicit your confidence in this proposal; this

is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top

secret. A deceased client of mine that shares same surname with you,

died as a result crash with the family with his private jet on July

20TH, 2012, leaving behind a deposit valued of USD$10.8 million

dollars. Due to the death of all members of his family on their holiday

trip surprise everybody, husband and wife with three beautiful

children. He’s an expatriate engineer who worked in Spain for Twenty

five years.

My purpose of contacting you is for you to help secure the funds left

behind by my late client, to avoid it being confiscated or returned to

the Government as unclaimed funds by a bank in Spain where this fund

valued (USD$10.800.000.00)Ten Million Eight Hundred Thousand Us

Dollars, deposited by my client here in Spain. Though I know that a

transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and

worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the

day.

The Bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin to my client

or the account will be declared unserviceable and the fund diverted to

the Bank treasury, So far, all my efforts to get a hold of someone

related to him has proved abortive. And the bank can not release the

fund unless somebody applies for it as next of kin to the deceased, as

indicated in the banking guidelines. Hence, I have contacted you. I am

actually asking for your consent to present your information to the

Bank as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late client's fund, since you

share the same surname, so that the proceeds of this account can be

paid to you. All the legal documentations to back up your claim as my

client's next of Kin, I shall provide. All I require is your honest

cooperation to enable us achieve this transaction.
I wish to point out that I will want 10% of this money to be shared

among charity Organizations, while the remaining 90% I will offer you

30%. This transaction is entirely risk free. I will use my position as

the client’s attorney to guarantee the successful execution of this

transaction.
If you are interested, please contact me via Tel: +34-688-212-631 Fax:

+34-911-881-346. or E-mail: barristermartingomez@lawyer.com upon your

response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant

documents that will help you understand this transaction properly. The

intended transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement

that will protect you from any breach of the law. However, if this

business proposal offends your moral ethics, do accept my sincere

apology, or if on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me,

kindly get back to me with your interest for further explanations.
Kindest Regards


Paul Martin Gómez
Calle Juan 23. PL2. 28090 Madrid-España
TEL: +34-688-212-631 FAX: +34-911-881-346
E-mail: barristermartingomez@lawyer.com

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