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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: Ignacio Villarreal <ignacio.villarreal2248@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 12:33:42 -0400
Subject: Sincerely waiting for your answer


Dear friend,

I am aware that this letter will surprised you because we have not
meet before and we have not had any kind of business together in the
past. However, I have put you in touch with genuine intentions, and I
hope to trust you with this inheritance opportunity, which will be
explained below.


My name is IGNACIO VILLARREAL a financial account manager at one of
the biggest banks here in MEXICO.

A deceased client of our bank who is a citizen of your country, ( I
will give you the complete contact of this citizen of your country)
who lived and died in Mexico City of cardiac arrest in 2009.
Unfortunately, this client dies intestate leaving his bank account
with an open beneficiary status.

All the efforts made by our bank to locate their relatives have not
been successful, so I decided to write that as I have supervised this
account in the bank for almost 10 years and nobody has come up with
any claim. I would like to present you to our bank as your next of
kin, to claim this idle account for $ 27.750.000 Million Dollars (
Twenty seven Million seven Hundred and fifty Thousand United State
Dollars).

 
You will have to request our bank as a long-term relationship to the
deceased client, while I work from the inside to make sure that all
the necessary information and proofs are provided to you to support
your claim. The account has an open beneficiary status, so I have
communicated with you to come and claim the funds as the family and
beneficiary. Since the deceased was from your country and it is easy
for you to make your next official relatives. If we do not make a
claim for these funds now, the funds will be invested back into the
system as unclaimed funds at the expiration of a 10-year period.

 

I assure you that this transaction will be handled under due
inheritance procedures and all necessary arrangements will be put in
place to make you the true beneficiary of the fund. It also requires
all confidentiality at this stage and I think you are ready to keep it
absolutely discreet until you are able to claim the bank's funds. Once
the funds are released to you, it will be shared between the two of us.

Please send your response indicating your willingness to proceed with
this transaction and we will discuss more details, as well as the
procedure to achieve a successful conclusion. This is an opportunity
of your life and of the people to achieve every day.

I am looking forward to your response


(ignacio.villarreal2248@gmail.com)


Sincerely waiting for your answer,


Ignacio Villarreal.

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