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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: terabelahonay@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 01:24:15 +0000
Subject: Re: INHERITANCE CLAIM (NOT SPAM MAIL)

Untitled form

To fill it out, visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw6iIR9adjx5x4y8lbnMj2-9IgXez2CVQzq-wKB4ctNdsq8g/viewform?vc
From The Desk Of:
Barrister Tera Belahonay
Reply-To: Barrister_Tera_Belahonay009@consultant.com

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
contact me via my private email :.
Barrister_Tera_Belahonay009@consultant.com
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
Barrister_Tera_Belahonay009@consultant.com


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