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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "Opportunity" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <unity28@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 01:02:04 -0800
Subject: Opportunity They Said Come But Once.

10 / 02 / 2017.
Hello Dear.

I am a banker with one the leading bank in Spain names withheld for security reason. Am personal account officer to an American expatriate engineer.
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 my bank an American citizen who has lived in this country Spain for many years with his wife and the only son were among
the 154 killed in the August 20th 2008 Spanair flight JK 5022 Madrid – Las Palmas accident on their way to Las Palmas for a short holidays,
leaving behind a deposit valued about €15.8 million Euros with my bank.
(Spanair Flight 5022 – Wikipedia)

My late client was an expatriate engineer, he has worked in and outside Spain for more than Twenty Five years. May his soul rest in peace.
My purpose of contacting you is for you to help secure this fund he left behind, to avoid it being confiscated by the Spanish Government as unclaimed funds.
This €15.8M Euros was from the result of his hard working and the inheritance he got from his late parents.
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 a notice to contact his relatives since his next of kin was his only son who was among 154 killed in the August 20th 2008 Spanair flight JK 5022 Madrid – Las Palmas accident.
By August 31st 2018 if nobody comes to claim this funds as a relative to my late client his account will be declared unserviceable and the fund diverted to the Bank treasury or sent to Spanish Government as unclaimed fund. So far,
all my efforts to get hold of someone related to him have proved abortive. And the bank can not release the fund unless somebody applies for it as a relative 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 an Attorney who will present you to the Bank as his relative, so that the proceeds of his account can be paid to you.
All the legal documentations to back up your claim shall be provided. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us achieve this transaction. Is better for us to have this money than for the Bank or the Government to have it as unclaimed fund.

I wish to point out that I will want 10% of this money to be shared among charity Organizations, while the remaining 90% will be shared equally between us.
This transaction is entirely risk free. I will use my position as the personal account officer to my late client to get all the information from his file to suport your cliam and to guarantee the successful execution of this transaction.

If you are interested, please contact me via this E-mail: unity28@yahoo.com, upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details, my name and my contact phone and fax numbers.

If this business proposal offends your moral ethics, please do accept my sincere apology, if on the contrary you wish to take this opportunity with me to change and transform our lives and that of our family,
as is says that opportunity comes but once, this opportunity is of a live time opportunity,
kindly get back to me with your interest for further explanations. If you have any question or questions feel free to ask me.

Also be kind to let me know if you are not interested so that I can further my search to find someone who will take this opportunity with me.
Thanks.

Best Regard.
J.M.G.

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