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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: "Senior. Paco Castro" <postmaster@panoramacasa.com>
Reply-To: pacocortez.sr@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 07:56:45 +0200
Subject: I Need Your Urgent Response

It may surprise you receiving this letter from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us.  Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. My name is Mr. Paco Castro Hernandez, a senior staff working with a bank here in Madrid Spain (my bank name where I work is Banco Cajasol Espaņa).

 

My purpose of contacting you is for you to help in securing the funds left behind by our late customer in our bank to avoid it being confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank. I discovered this fund amount of US$9,500,000.00 in the account of late ENGINEER. ROBERT MEUNIER, a BRITISH Nationality. He died in an Auto Accident along with his only known family since Oct 14th 2004 along Zaragoza Express Way in Spain.

 

What I need is your assistance in transferring this fund into your bank account within 8 to 10 banking days. Before the account will be declared unserviceable, and I agree that 50% of this money will be for you in respect of the provision of your bank account, and 50% will be for me.

 

I made a personal search in your Country directories and I found your email and I decided to contact you so that we can work together in securing this money out from the bank.

 

Please be aware, that I am contacting you independently for this deal outside the bank notice where I work, and I advice we keep it personal to ourselves. I want you to apply for the claim of this fund of US$9,500,000.00 in our bank as the deceased sole inheritor.

 

I am actually giving you this proposal notification to present you as the deceased Next of Kin, since there is no writing will I shall therefore, process the entire probate and representative documents, which will reflect you as the original next of kin and the sole inheritor of the Claim.

 

I am aware that this is certainly not a conventional way of approach to establish business and a relationship of trust. But please be assured that I will pursue this transaction with you legally and according to the Spanish inheritance Law.

 

I wish to point out that l want 10% of this money to be shared among the Less Privilege, while the remaining 90% will be shared equally within us as part of our effort. With great interest, do not hesitate to contact me with your personal informationīs E.g. Full Names, Age, Address, Occupation, Phone/mobile number via my direct E-mail address:sr.pacocortez@gmail.com, to enable me file necessary documents at our high court probate division for the release of this sum of money in our favor.

Thanks for your Co-operation and Understanding.

 

With Kindest Regards,

 

Mr. Paco Castro Hernandez

My private Email: sr.pacocortez@gmail.com

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