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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: "Barrister Don Spencer" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barristerspencerr@consultant.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 06:48:28 +0100
Subject: Re:URGENT?

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: barristerspencer@consultant.com


BUSINESS PROPOSAL

My name is Barr. Don Spencer a personal Attorney/Solicitor to Mr. Andrew 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 of money 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: barristerspencer@consultant.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.
I await your immediate response.

Best Regards.

Barrister Don Spencer
Attorney at Law

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