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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: "Barr. Jose Pedro Perez-Llorca" <mailtundan@mail.tundan.ml>
Reply-To: josepedroperezllorca01@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 16:36:03 +0000
Subject: Business Proposal



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My name is Barr. Jose Pedro Perez-Llorca, a legal practitioner in Madrid
Spain. I have a business proposal which i believe that will be a very
good opportunity for both of us so I decided to contact you on this
business opportunity here in Spain.

The proposal is that I have a client, who was deceased since 2000,
alongside with his entire family in Air France,you can confirm it
yourself via the website below from (BBC NEWS: click on the link below
for more prove, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm.
I am contacting you to know if you could help or assist me in claiming
of the funds that was left in my deceased client's bank account in
Spain. So, I have decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased since nobody
is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the banks
treasury as unclaimed funds or declared to the Government of Spain, once
this is done the Government of Spain will confiscate the funds, which is
not good for both of us. I agreed that 40 % of this money will be for
you as a foreign partner, in respect to your acceptance to do this
business with me, while 60% would be for me and my family. The total
amount of cash in the bank account of my deceased client is
EUR24,700,000 (Twenty Four Million, Seven Hundred Thousand Euros Only).

The bank have issued to me a notification to contact the next of kin of
my deceased client for either to re-activate the bank account or to make
claim of beneficiary of the Money in the bank account, with a month
surcharge of 6% to be deducted as an Escrow safe keeping fee of the bank
account, so as to avoid the indefinite closure of the bank account. I
want to seek your consent first and to present your kind self as the
next of kin and beneficiary of my deceased client, since I have the
whole information's that the bank will request for the release of the
fund.
This means that the proceeds of his bank account would be paid to you as
his next of kin or the legitimate beneficiary. When the money is been
transferred into your account, I will visit your country to set up an
investment under your kind control. All the legal documents to back up
your claim as my client's next of kin would be provided by me. The most
important thing I want is your honest co-operation in this proposition.
This would be done under a legitimate arrangement that would protect you
from any breach of the law.

If this business proposition offends your moral and ethical values, feel
free to back out. Please contact me at once if you are interested.


Regards,

Barr. Jose Pedro Perez-Llorca
(Senior Advocate/Solicitor)

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