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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: "Diaz-Bastien & Truan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dbtmadrid@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 23:31:56 -0800
Subject: UNCLAIMED FUNDS

Diaz-Bastien & Truan Abogados
Paseo de la Castellana, 13
Madrid 28046, Spain
Dear Sir,
Accept my apology for sending you this sensitive information via email instead of a Post, it is due to the urgency of the information. I humbly crave your indulgence to read this mail with all understanding because this project is based on trust, confidentiality and sincerity.
My name Mr. Hector Diaz-Bastien Jr, a solicitor and personal attorney to late Mr. Sokiuji Tsukimori, an expatriate consultant and contractor with Idemitsu Chemicals Europe PLC, a Japanese Oil servicing company in Spain. He died in the tsunami that ravaged Japan on the 11th March 2011 while on vacation there. My Client successfully executed a contract for Repsol (www.repsol.com/es_en) worth US$45M. A part-payment of US$30M was paid to my client, while the balance of US$15M was still unpaid before my client died in the tsunami disaster. However, all effort to locate the possible next of kin has proved abortive these past years. Until his sudden and disastrous death, my client was not married and was 54 years old.
THE CRUX OF THIS LETTER is that Repsol is paying all Contractors that have successfully executed their contracts and my client is among those already paid. Yesterday, his bank (Banco Santander) officially notified me as his personal attorney and instructed me that since Mr. Tsukimori is late, that I should forward particulars of my client's next of kin within the next 10 working days so that he/she can be paid the outstanding US$15M already received from Repsol by my client's bank, otherwise his payment would be diverted to the government treasury as unclaimed.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of his relatives since past seven (7) years, I decided to contact you for a deal so that we can work together to claim the fund and have it remitted into your account. You are going to stand as my late client's next of kin and I will nominate you as such to the bank. Since it is going to be ver easy for us to actualize this with your cooperation, I do not want the fund to go to government treasury. Although I know that a transaction of this magnitude might make anyone apprehensive, I would like to assure you that I am proposing this to you with every sense of responsibility and trust.
As a lawyer, I can assure you that all legal documents shall be procured in order to have this legally actualized. All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through.
 
Soon as we successful have the fund in your account, I intent coming to meet you and we shall have it shared thus: 40% for you, 55% will be for me and 5% is to defray any expenditure we may incur in the course of this transaction.
I await your urgent reply with your telephone number to enable me call you for more details on dbtmadrid@gmail.com or diaz.and.truan@gmail.com
 
NOTE: THIS IS LEGAL AND LEGITIMATE, PLEASE LET'S HELP EACH OTHER.
Sincerely,
Mr.Hector Diaz-Bastien Jr.

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