419 scam: NEWS UNIT <roseline.jackson147@gmail.com> Urgent Response

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a next of kin scam.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- bar.ibrahimosman@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: NEWS UNIT <roseline.jackson147@gmail.com>
Reply-To: bar.ibrahimosman@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 12:20:38 +0300
Subject: Urgent Response

Good day.
Sorry to have encroached into your privacy in this manner. I am contacting
you in relation to my late client. I worked for him as his private
investment attorney, and in the few years prior to his death.
Unfortunately, my client died along with his nuclear family in France while
on sabbatical leave in summer,2013. He died without leaving a "WILL" About
several efforts made to find his extended family through the embassy but
proved abortive).

Before his death,after afew years of profit making, he instructed me that
all the money be deposited together in a single bank account, and I
assigned it to a bank in Turkey, to secure the money in a single account.
Shortly after he died, I assumed his relatives had made claims. But I
received a letter last week of December,2020 from the Bank headquarter, to
provide the next of kin to my late client , as his personal investment
attorney. Failure to provide he/her will risk transfering of the funds to
the Government (Escheat) after 21 days. I am contacting you to assist me in
repatriating the funds left behind by my late client as you share the same
surname with him.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Regards,
Ä°brahim Osman
Email: bar.ibrahimosman@gmail.com

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