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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: "Mr. X" <webmaster@stefani-hats.ru>
Reply-To: colejefferey86@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 03:58:51 +0100
Subject: KINDLY REPLU URGENTLY


Dear Friend,
I am COLE JEFFEREY by name. I would like to know if you can stand as a Beneficiary(Next of Kin) to helping me claim my late father's fund worth £25,000,000(TWENTY FIVE MILLION POUNDS). not only your assistance as standing to be the sole beneficiary to my late father's funds but also as a financially buoyant beneficiary in helping me getting the funds released .

The reason am writing to inform you about this is because my late father's Business Partners are at logger heads to deprive me of his fortune and they are ready to spend at all cost to see me loose since i have no source of funds to see me fight the battle and get the money released.i have no one else to come to my rescue because the court has issued an ultimatum of 7 days for me to provide a beneficiary within the next Couple of days or i will forfeit everything,the process to get this done requires me spending some thousands of pounds and taking care of some charges by the bank and court of which i have no finance to fund the process by next week.that is why my late father's Business Partners are willing to go at all cost to gain everything and the more reason am seeking your financial assistance to get the funds released under next few days.Please be rest assured that if you agree to work with me that 50% of the funds would be immediately yours as soon as the funds are under your control. Your willingness to put in an undying effort to every arrangement would ensure quick recovery of the funds within the next few days before they are taken by late father's Business Partners. On my part i will do everything possible to make sure that all paperwork are released to you in other to authenticate the release of the funds to you by the bank.

I will be glad to know that you will be willing to work with me to make sure that these funds are released to us as soon as possible.I will like you to trust me on this transfer procedure as i really have nothing to gain by lying to you as we will also be wasting our precious time and I will never do anything to jeopardize our relationship.This is 100% true and i will like for you to help in making sure that my late father's Partners do not get these funds.

In order to proceed,you are expected to provide the following details enlisted below so that I can immediately proceed to the Justice Department to have the Probate Letter processed so that the Bank can authenticate the release of the funds to you as the Beneficiary.

The details are;

{1}Complete Legal Names:
{2}Current Residential/Mailing Address:
{3}Telephone/Mobile Numbers for easy correspondence:
{4}Occupation/Age/Marital Status/I.D(Drivers license or passport):
{5}Bank Details(which the £25,000,000(TWENTY FIVE MILLION POUNDS) will be transferred to )

Please provide the details above as soon as possible because the Court has already sent me a Letter of Notification requesting that they be briefed on the position of things with the release of the funds to the Beneficiary. As soon as you provide me with these details enlisted above,I will Immediately proceed to the High Court of Justice for the signing of the Probate Letter. After this is completed,I will Immediately forward the document to you as well as the contact details of the Bank and the Account Officer in possession of the£25,000,000(TWENTY FIVE MILLION POUNDS).

Also, I would like you to know that there are five conditions which you are to agree to before I can make you the beneficiary of these funds. The Conditions are;

[i] You are to ensure that constant contact/correspondence is made by you with the Bank and the Account Officer in possession of the funds as soon as I provide you with their contact information and also the Letter of Administration so that you can contact them as the Beneficiary of the funds.
[ii] Any Instruction/Guideline given to you by the Bank should first be forwarded to me via email so that I can provide you with professional advice on how to proceed.
[iii] That you will show total confidence in my advices as well as follow every instruction which I will give to you once the transfer of the funds are initiated.
[iv]That you agree to be in financial Support and expenses when the Bank and Court request for some charges payment to enable them release the funds to you
[v]That Payment of the different stages and probate letter will be paid by you and commence immediately once you provide your details to get the probate letter released.

Please note that it is very imperative that you agree to the above conditions because the success of this transaction depends on the both of us working hand-in-hand to ensure that these funds are released into your account before the court can come up with a date for the release of the funds to my late father's sibling if they move faster than us.

Also note that on this matter, I will be entitled to 40% of the funds as the sole executor of the will of my late father just after the funds have been released to you. The 50% will have to come you as agreement,while the other 10% will be yours for expenses you Will spend when the bank ask you to make some payments so that the funds can be released to you.Making it a total of 60% which you are to get from this transaction . I will also urge you to co-operate with me on this transaction as well as the Bank that will be releasing the funds and to be Very Confidential about this release process until the funds have been released to you.If interested Please ENSURE TO Contact me soonest via (colejefferey86@gmail.com ).

I hope to receive your earliest response as soon as possible.

Yours in Service,
COLE JEFFEREY

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