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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: James Goold <jamesgoold@manuliffinancial.com>
Reply-To: jamesgolld@goldsconsultant.com
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 01:15:24 +0100
Subject: Greetings!!



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James A. Goold
Covington & Burling LLP
Of Counsel
WhatsApp: +1 636 395 0149
Email: jamesgolld@goldsconsultant.com
Office: Covington & BurlingLLP
One CityCenter
850 Tenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001-4956


Greetings,
Thank you for contacting me,

My name is James A. Goold i am a resident in Covington & Burling LLP
Of Counsel Washington, DC office. My practice spans a wide range of U.S.
Britain and European litigation and arbitration, including insurance
coverage for policyholders on environmental, product liability, mass
tort and catastrophe claims; energy industry and other commercial
disputes; mass tort product liability defense; and representations of
European governments concerning sovereign immunity and other claims
against military, historic and cultural properties in the U.S. UK, and
Europe.

I have received and acknowledged the receipt of your email with the
transaction code, GX68543 Belonging to Hall James, An Engineer deployed
to Sweden. With this Transaction Code, GX68543 I am certain that you
were truly directed by Hall James to receive his payment valued at the
total sum of Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000) As his Next of Kin due to
his personal reasons which must be followed as instructed.

This is an International payment subsequently you will have to receive
these funds through the issuing bank, My duty is to legally introduce
you to the Issuing Bank in Canada and also create a mutual relationship
between your bank and the Issuing bank concerning the incoming funds
into your Bank account. It is going to be a gradual transaction as you
follow instructions and directives from the bank to transfer the total
sum to you and also will you get back to me immediately the entire
/complete funds has been received.

You have to keep me posted with every details regarding this transaction
until the entire fund is successfully transferred, This is to enable me
keep records of this transaction for update and future purposes.

Contact the payment bank on the below details and notify me as well as
soon as you have initiated contact with them.

Bank Contact Details.
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA (RBC)
200 Bay Street, Royal Bank Plaza,
Toronto, ON, CA, M5J 2J5
Contact Email: rbconline@bk.ru
Tel: +1 937-265-8449
Transaction code: GX68543

NB: Always use this transaction code as your Email Subject while
contacting the Bank as it will also give you them access to find your
transaction file immediately,

Kindly get in contact with the bank on the above email and then do not
forget to keep me posted via email or through Whats App number above for
quick responses.

Thank You
James A. Goold
Covington & Burling LLP
Of Counsel

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