419 scam: "Carol Lagarde"<c.lagarde56@gmail.com> Release notification.

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "transfer cost" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "western union" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
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.
- d.whitmarsh57@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Carol Lagarde" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <c.llagarde51@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:12:43 -0500
Subject: Release notification.

Good Day,

Happy new year. My name is Carol Lagarde - Director, Portfolio for Access Private Bank UK. The Board of the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs hereby brings you notice of the release approval, for 20% of your compensation / inheritance payment, of Seven Million and Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars ($7,750,000.00). 20% of this amount is exactly $1,550,000.00; which is all we have been approved to wire to you, by daily installments, via Western Union Money Transfer. The balance of $6,200,000.00 will be wired directly to your bank account; after you must have had enough money, to pay the necessary transfer costs and taxes (using some of the money we would already have sent to you, via Western Union).

After a meeting was held on Wednesday, 9th of January 2019, his excellence Mr. Alan Duncan - the current Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, instructed the Western Union Money Transfer remittance unit of Access Private Bank UK, to without any delays whatsoever, commence the remittance of 20% of your compensation payment; as mentioned above. Therefore, we are about to release to you, the sum of One Million and Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars ($1,550,000.00).

Please take note. You are required to promptly contact the impact and communications department of our institution; so they can swing your transfers to immediate action. You will be corresponding with the director of this department, on the information provided below;

Contact:
Mr. Daniel Whitmarsh
Director,
Impact and Communications department
Access Private Bank UK
Email: d.whitmarsh57@hotmail.com

Please, do let me have all the details of your correspondence with the impact and communications director; as I will be submitting intermittent reports, directly to the secretary of the Minister of State, for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; as soon as you have started receiving your payments. Congratulations in advance.

Regards,
Carol Lagarde,
Director, Portfolio
Access Private Bank UK
Northwich,
Cheshire;
United Kingdom.

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