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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: "nbmsolicitorsuk08@gmail.com" <cristina.nunez@opticalia.es>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:34:16 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION

NBM Solicitors
32 Rains ford Road
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 2QG
United Kingdom
Registered no. 00061052

OUR REF/ NBM/SLCRT/ATT/LW.UK/ 001/2018

This is to acknowledge your mail and thank you for your much awaited
response to my initial mail requesting your genuine partnership in
this viable and lucrative proposal.

I presume sir, that all is well with you and your family. Please let
this proposal not come to you as a surprise, because we haven't met
before. I got your contact information from a web directory few weeks
ago before I decided to contact you on this business opportunity.

Firstly i want to notify you that what we about doing is legitimate
and would be done legitimately so that at the end it all we can
jointly enjoy the proceeds of our labor peacefully.

I am also a member of an Ad hoc committee recently set up by the
British Government to look into growing number of dormant
accounts/funds in UK banks due to deaths of customers, with a view to
finding ways of locating relatives of the dead customers. The British
Government is already working with some NGO'S through the unclaimed
Assets Register, to confiscate and divert unclaimed depositor's funds
to help the economy.

This particular case involves a deceased client named Mr Steven
Blundell,and also the circumstances surrounding huge deposits made by
him at the Private Banking arm of HSBC BANK London (UK). After
conclusive investigations he died in testate and nominated no
successor in title over the huge deposits of (4, 7 000.00} Four
million, seven hundred thousand British Pounds sterlings here in
London. I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of
this email private and respect the integrity of the information you
come by as a result of this email. I'm contacting you independently of
our investigation and no one is informed of this communication between
you and me. I would like to intimate you with facts that I believe
would be of interest to you. I will simply nominate you as the next of
kin and have them release the deposit to you. I assure you that I can
have the deposit released to you within 10 banking days. Upon receipt
of the deposit, I'm prepared to share the proceed with you in the
ratio of 60/40 %.

I am aware of the consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you
find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I
ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of
no appeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you.
Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal.
You may not know this but people like me who have made tidy sums out
of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am
not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience,
this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my
industry dictates that I make this move.

Such opportunities only come ones in a lifetime. I cannot let this
chance pass me by, for once; I have found myself in total control of
my destiny. These chances won't pass me by. I ask that you do not
destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me
move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this
is an opportunity to change my life for good.

Moreover, my 16 yrs old daughter, my only child, is suffering from
Leukemia and she needs an urgent bone marrow surgery in California as
advised by my family doctor. But it will cost me around US$200,000.00
to take her for the surgery. And that is why I’m eager to utilize this
opportunity since our family doctor has given my daughter just three
months to live.

There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth
undertaking. I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here
is from you refusing to work with me. I am the only one who knows of
this situation, good fortune has blessed you with same family name
BLUNDELL that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life.
Let’s share the blessing. If you give me positive signals, I will
initiate this process towards a conclusion.

I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the
consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing
gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of
gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my work experience of
helping and saving people. Do not betray my confidence and we can be
of one accord.


Anticipating your immediate response.


Regards,
Oscar Fredricks. ESQ

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