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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Barr. Don Spencer" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <donspencer@europe.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 01:34:08 +0700
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL!!!

SPENCER DONNELL SOLICITORS
(Legal Practitioners, Solicitors, Arbitrators)
Spencer Donnell, 70 Charlotte Street,
London WIT 4QG, United Kingdom
Tel: +44-797-829-8330
Fax: +44-203-163-1647
Email: donspencer@europe.com
10th December, 2015

Reference No: STZ/2897/23 ESP
Batch No: 424/KNZ/14

BUSINESS PROPOSAL

My name is Barr. Don Spencer a personal Attorney/Solicitor to Mr. Palmer Johnson who died along-side his entire family on the 10th June, 2010 in a motor car

accident in (Madrid) Spain. It may surprise you receiving this letter from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us. This is by virtue of

its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret hence I solicit your confidence in this matter between us. My purpose of contacting is for you to

help secure a cash deposit left behind by my late client, to avoid it being confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this cash deposit valued

€12, 700, 000.00 (Twelve Million, Seven Hundred Thousand Euros) was deposited by my late client before his accidental death. I got information about this

cash deposit a couple of months ago from an inside confidential source in the bank where this huge amount was deposited in a secret account since the year

2010 under Blind Trust Fund Protection Act 6/OJL184/PT3 and we have been working on the project since then.

Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but there is nothing really to worry about because all relevant

documents and information as regards to the cash deposit is in my possession as we speak therefore I guarantee the success of this transaction in all legal

definitions. As his Attorney I have contacted the bank for the claim of the fund and the Bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin or the

account will be declared unserviceable and the fund will be retired by the state (Madrid). This type of incidents is not new, there are many people who try

to evade taxes in their country of origin by depositing money in a foreign secret accounts but I never knew my late client had one until his accidental death

and the eventual disclosure from my contact in the bank.

Since this account is secret and there is no one left to claim the fund I am contacting you. I am actually asking for your consent to present you to the Bank

as the Next of Kin/Beneficiary of my late client’s fund, since you have the same last name, so that the fund will be released to you as his Next of Kin. All

the legal documents to back your claim as my client’s next of kin are with me. All I require is your honest cooperation and absolute confidentiality in order

to guarantee success.

Upon the completion of the transaction you will retain 40% of the total sum and 10% for the expenses remaining 50% will be for meant my contact in the bank.

Please be assured that this transaction is entirely risk free as I guarantee the legality and success of this transaction. For more information please

contact me on the Telephone Line: +44-797-829-8330:, Fax: +44-203-163-1647 or Email: donspencer@europe.com

If this business proposal offends your moral ethics, do accept my sincere apology but if on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me, please kindly

contact me with your interest to enable me start process of claim immediately.

Awaiting your immediate response.

Best Regards.

Barr. Don Spencer
Attorney at Law

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