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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 Mark R. Ostler" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <markostler236@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 08:24:31 -0300
Subject: YOUR CONCISE RESPOSE REQUIRED URGENTLY

Hello ,

 

I am Mr. Mark R. Ostler, a citizen of United States of America. A solicitor and co-owner of Cohen & Ostler Chamber,

455 N Whisman Rd, Mountain View, CA 94043. I am a litigation attorney, a present and active member of the State

Bar of California and my service type is private. I have been the attorney to Mr. Steve Idrus Tew, a multinational

entrepreneur, investor, consultant, real estate management. Mr. Steve whom i will refer to here as my client has

worked in many financial and operational capacities, one time president Park city group, ShapeRite Concept,

Fields Cookies as well as Prince Water-house Cooper where he worked as a certified Public Accountant.

He has a Bachelor degree from Weber State University in Ogden, Utah USA. My client (Mr. Steve) use to work with

shell development company as the general accounting operational manager.

 

On 21st of April 2012, my client, his wife and their 2 children were involved in a car accident. All occupant inside

the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since the death of my client, i have made several attempt to keep up the

deceased will and on different counts and time i have tried to find any relatives or any extended families but all

prove abortive, which means my client has no recorded family or known relations.

 

As the attorney to my client i have all his investment and accounting records. I have traveled out of the States severally

to oversea his investment and to my knowledge my client has a huge deposits, my client Mr. Tew is worth ($98 Million)

and he has made his deposit in 3 different banks were he has worked majorly from as a consultant  before he unfortunately

passed on. I am more interested in one of the local banks were he deposited the largest amount of about ($51 million).

I wish to offer you a partnership deal in this business transaction. Let me re-assure you that the source of this money

is very legitimate and it does not have anything to do with laundering or what so ever.

 

For this transaction to commence, I will need you to tell me about yourself and provide me with your details so I can be

sure of who I am about to engage in business with and if you have the capacity to handle huge amount of this nature.

I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information

you come by as a result of this mail. I contacted you independently on this investigation and no one is informed of this

communication. The finance institute where my client has an account has issued me a notice to provide the N.O.K or have

the account confiscated within the next Fourteen official working days.

 

 

In regards to this, i wish to present you as the N.O.K to the bank for the claim of the total sum and its interest. All i require of

you is your honest cooperation, understanding, ability and commitment in getting this done and when the valued money is

been paid to you we could share it 50% for me, 40% for you and other 10% for miscellaneous expenses.

 

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement and immunity that will protect you from any breach of

the law. Please get in touch with me by my email and send to me your Name, telephone numbers and address to enable us

discuss further about this transaction. As soon as i confirm the receipt of this message and your willingness to part-take,

you will further receive more information and arrangement towards this and i will keep you updated with every thing you

need to know and work with. I hope to read from you as soon as possible.

 

Best Regards

Mr. Mark R. Ostler

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