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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: "BR. Juan Antonio Ruiz" <mail@albertshin.com>
Reply-To: consultant@espanabogados.com
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:02:15 -0400
Subject: Business Proposal



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ESPAN & ABOGADOS

PaseoCastellana 119, 28046

Madrid, Spain

TEL: +34 911 899 574

FAX: +34 919 031
337

Email: consultant@espanabogados.com

Website: www.espanam.com



Date: 23/ 09/2020

Dear Sir / Madam,




REFERENCE NUMBER: EU/ESP/NZ5407-20
Business Proposal
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at
the end of the day. Let me start by first introducing myself properly to
you. It may surprise you receiving this letter from me, since there was
no previous correspondence between us My name is Barrister Juan Antonio
Ruiz,(Spanish Lawyer) a personal Attorney to Late Mr. Michael an
expatriate engineer who has worked with the Mining and Smelting Company
(Asturiana de Zinc S.A. Spain).
My purpose of contacting you is for you to help secure a cash deposit
left behind by my late client, to avoid it being confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the Bank where this cash deposit valued €12,700,000.00
(Twelve Million Seven Hundred Thousand Euros Only) this money was
deposited by my late client before he passed away, he died by stroke and
cancer on the 16th April 2014, he left the fund with no Will and up till
today his relatives remained unknown.

All relevant documents and information as regards to the cash deposit is
in my possession as we speak therefore I guarantee the success of this
transaction in all legal definitions. As his attorney I have contacted
the bank for the claim of the fund and the Bank has issued me a notice
to contact the next of kin or the account will be declared unserviceable
and the fund will be retired by the state (Ayuntamiento de Madrid). This
type of incident is not new, there are many people who try to evade
taxes in their country of origin by depositing their money in a foreign
secret accounts but I never knew my late client had one until his
accidental death and the eventual disclosure from my contact in the
bank. Since this account is secret and there is no one left to claim the
fund I am contacting you. I am actually asking for your consent to
present you to the Bank as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late
client's fund, since you have the same last name, so that the fund will
be released to you as his next of kin. All the legal documents to back
up your claim as my client's next of Kin are with me. All I require is
your honest cooperation and absolute confidentiality in order to
guarantee success.

Upon the completion of the transaction i wish to point out that I want
20% of this money to be shared among the
charity Organizations, while the remaining will be shared equally
between us. Please be assured that this transa-
ction is entirely risk free as I guarantee the legality and success of
this transaction. For more information please
contact me on telephone: +34911 899 574, fax: +34919 031 337 or
E-mail: consultant@espanabogados.com
If this business proposal offends your moral ethics, do accept my
sincere apology but if on the contrary you wish
to achieve this goal with me, please kindly contact me with your
interest to enable me start the process of claim
immediately.
Awaiting for your immediate response.

Best Regards,

Barr. Juan Antonio Ruiz.
Attorney at Law


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