419 scam: <rpecoffice@e-mile.co.uk> Mr. Ibrahim Legwell (LLP)

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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:

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.

Fraud email example:

From: <rpecoffice@e-mile.co.uk>
Reply-To: <ibrahimlegwell@ovi.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:12:08 +0100
Subject: Mr. Ibrahim Legwell (LLP)

>From Ibrahim Legwell Law Firm

Greetings!
I am interested in establishing and operating a viable business as a means of investment in your country, I am proposing property investment project, to formally introduce myself, am the Mr. Ibrahim Legwell (LLP), a personal attorney to my late client Mr.Jomoa Abu Amid/ Manager Libya Oil Holding Company, who died as a result of NATO unleashes blistering airstrikes during months of civil war in Libya. He died without any registered next of kin and as such the funds (US$6.8Million) now have an open beneficiary mandate. The board of directors of his Deutsche Bank AG adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of this money or forfeit the money to Financial Service Authority (UK) account as an unclaimed assets. Fortunately, it will be very easy for me to make you become his official next of kin because I am his personal assets and investments lawyer. Please for your assistance in handling the project I will map out certain amount for your p!
ersonal use from the deposit, if y

Sincerely,
Mr. Ibrahim Legwell (LLP)
Ibrahim Legwell Law Firm
P.O.Box 484
Tripoli.Libya

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