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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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From: financialservicesoldmutual@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 20:08:10 +0000
Subject: PERSONALLY TO YOU / VERY URGENT

Untitled form

To fill it out, visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf3at3s6-DpzoTIeAB-P7hKfMCM1JXNZiagz8dwhRQ4JnmaBg/viewform?vc



European Investment Bank
125 Old Broad St, London EC2N 1AR
United Kingdom

Attention,

Calvary Greetings,


I was privileged to capture your email contact from the Internet. My name
is Sir David Cole, an accountant and personal account officer to my late
acount customer , who died along with his wife and his Two sons in a
Ghastly motor accident on the 13th july 2017 over three years now, All the
occupants
in the vehicle lost their lives. I am convinced that it was the grace of
God that made me to locate you. My account customer was a successful
business man and an
accomplished family man, who made enough fortune before his untimely
death.Since then I had made several inquiries through your Embassy to locate
any of my clients extended relatives but this exercise has proved
unsuccessful.

After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives
through the Internet, to locate any member of his family not much progress
was recorded,After all this effort to trace his relatives proved
abortive,then I decided to contact you to stand as his next of kin .Mr
williams used his closest friend a foriegner as his next of kin.Of which i
cannot trace him.Mr williams was an influential wealthy businessman, an oil
magnet here in Africa and he left behind a deposit of Twenty Million Two
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only US$20,2OO,OOO.OO in his
domiciliary bank account in GULF BANK OF WEST AFRICAN PLC.After his death
my bank contacted me, as his account officer to provide his next of kin who
should inherit his fortune.Then i contacted his attorney of which we have
been working together to trace his relatives but the whole effort proved
abortive.Now we have come up with a decision to contact you before they
take a drastic measures.

The board of directors of the above named financial institution adopted a
resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of
this money within 28 working days or forfeit the money to the bank as an
abandoned property.

The bankers had planned to invoke the abandoned property decree of 1996 to
confiscate the funds after the expiration of the period given to me.
Despairing at the point of exhaustiveness, fortunately, I came across your
email address, therefore, decided to contact you for assistance. By virtue
of my closeness and account officer to the deceased and his immediate
family, I am very much aware of Mr Williams financial stand.

I have reasoned very professionally and I feel it will be legally proper to
present you as the next of kin of Mr Williams so that you can be paid the
funds left in his bank account hence I contacted you. I seek your consent
to present you as the Next of Kin to the Deceased so that the proceeds of
this Bank Account valued at US$20.2m Million Dollars can be paid to you. We
shall both share the funds. 55% to us and 45% to you,I shall assemble all
the necessary Legal Documents that will be used to back up our claim.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. Please get in
touch with me immediately to my private email address:(
johnsoninvestment1@gmail.com) to enable us discuss further


I will therefore furnish with you all the necessary documents with which
you will use to claim the money

Warm Regards,
Sir David Cole
For : European Investment Bank
London Uk




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