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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: BARRISTER TERA BELAHONAY <terabelahonay@gmail.com>
Reply-To: tera566@seznam.cz
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 13:32:43 +0100
Subject: Please reply me as soon as possible for us to start this transaction
in earnest

>From The Desk Of:
Barrister Tera Belahonay

Greetings ,

Sorry if I have intruded into your privacy by contacting you through
this medium without official notification. It is borne out of the
urgency of a very important and confidential matter.It is a personal
email directed to you alone and I request that it should be treated as
such.

I am Barrister Tera Belahonay, a solicitor at law and the personal
attorney/sole executor to the late Mr Thomas Brown, who worked as an
independent oil magnate in (Zenon oil Company) .

Before his untimely death which claim the entire Family in a plane
crash on may 12 2010. here is link for your view:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/world/middleeast/13libya.html?_r

Before his eventual death, I assisted him in the deposit of five
Million, eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ( US$5.8million
) in a Bank. The funds have remained unclaimed since his death.Moreso,
I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a
likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned/unclaimed fund in
line with existing financial laws by the apex bank here.

On this note and considering the lack of success in my effort to
locate any of his relatives for the past years, I hereby solicit your
personal consent, to present you to the Bank as my late client's
surviving family member or relation, so as to enable you put up a
legitimate and official claim to the Bank in that capacity as a next
of kin of my client.

I would assist you in providing all the necessary documents relating
to the deposited fund whenever the Bank requested for them. Therefore,
to facilitate the immediate reprofiling of this fund, you need, first to
signifying your interest by Furnishing me with your following
confidential details:

1. YOUR MOBILE NUMBER
2. YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS
3. YOUR FULL NAME & AGE
4. OCCUPATION
5. MARITAL STATUS

With the above details, I will be fully armed to defend you for the
claim proper. This transaction is 100% risk free and I don't want you
to entertain any fear because the security of all parties involved is
adequately guaranteed in as much as it is executed through the
appropriate manner and channel.

Please reply me as soon as possible for us to start this transaction in earnest.

I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

Thanks and God bless.

Barrister Tera Belahonay

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