419 scam: dwyer manuel <dwyermanuel037@gmail.com> Attention Beneficiary

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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:
- "million pounds" (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)
- "is 100% risk-free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
- "offshore account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- dwyermanuel283@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: dwyer manuel <dwyermanuel037@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dwyermanuel283@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 09:23:27 -0700
Subject: Attention Beneficiary

--
The internet has been grossly abused by scam artists and miscreants whose
dreadful acts have hurt and ruined many individuals. In as much as one
should be careful, at the same time we shouldn't allow negativity to kill
our positive potential in a realistic privilege.

I'm confiding in you with the following information. Please, if you are not
interested, kindly discard it. One Passionate appeal I will make to you is
not to discuss this matter with anybody, if you have any reasons to reject
this offer. Please, and please delete this message as any leakage of this
information will cause me a severe predicament.

Please note that the following proposal is 100% risk-free.

My name is Manuel Dwyer, a solicitor and financial attorney of a highly
ranked law firm in the United Kingdom.

This letter is to ask for your support and collaboration to secure a
misplaced asset of my late client to avoid liquidation by the financial
institution or impoundment by the Government treasury department.My client,
late Michael Harris, a geologist died in a plane crash (Air France Flight
447) in June 2009 with his entire family and other passengers on board as
confirmed by the CBS news website below.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-geologist-wife-were-on-doomed-jet/

His Fixed Deposit of the Â£28M (Twenty Eight Million Pounds) in a UK Bank in
2007 has accrued interest of Â£13.8M. It's been over a decade and the Bank
is required to review the deposit contract.

As the attorney, the Bank has been contacting me for over 4 years regarding
the amendment of the contract, but I didn't want to inform the Bank about
the crash incident because it will automatically result in the liquidation
of the asset. Also, according to United Kingdom banking law, after the
expiration of 15 years, if deposit contract terms are not amended the asset
will be subjected to confiscation by the HM treasury.

Therefore, I'm seeking your support to stand as next of kin/beneficiary to
claim these funds so that we move them into useful investments. I'm willing
to share 40% for you and 60% will be kept for me.You will provide an
offshore account where the funds will be transferred. Also, your presence
is not required in the United Kingdom, as a financial attorney and the
legal representative of Michael Harris, I have the legal right and the
documents that are required to initiate the claim.

Please, if you are interested in this proposal, kindly forward your contact
information as soon as possible for further discussion.

In the meantime, you are required to reply private email address as follows
for security purpose; dwyermanuel283@gmail.com

Thanks for your kind understanding.

Manuel Dwyer

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