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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: Alan spence <clarkrobinson892@gmail.com>
Reply-To: alanspence11@naver.com
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:26:18 +0100
Subject: For your kind attention


Greetings!

Hope you're keeping well and having a good day. Pardon me for not
knowing your mindset before contacting you on this very confidential
message. I am Mr. Alan Spencer, an expatriate partner working with the
UKRSIBBANK Ukraine.

I'm contacting you because you are bearing the same Surname and of the
same nationality with our late customer, late ( Mrs. Julie ) who died
on 25th May, in the year 2009. She has lived all her life here in my
country.

All these while I have been her account manager in our bank, currently
our bank has requested that I, being the branch manager of the
account, should present her next of kin who will claim all the money
she left it in her account with our bank before her death.

We have sent out delegates to search for her relatives but we could
not locate anyone from her family, our bank has also made several
inquiries to your embassy to locate any of our customer's extended
relatives, this has proved unsuccessful.

From my investigation, there was no history of her background.

Mrs. Julie our customer has an account with our bank total Sum of
{€6.200.000.00 EUROS}, which she inherited from her late husband, who
was a shipping mogul before he died many years ago leaving Mrs Julie
to inherit all his assets. Since the unfortunate demise of Julie, our
the bank has not had anyone come forward for the claims of this
outstanding deposit funds as either her relation or even as a friend.

A situation I have monitored closely with my position here as the
manager of this branch of our bank, l have finally removed her file to
my private vault. After removing her file, I set out plans on how to
successfully move the fund out of our bank and this is why I'm
contacting you so that I can negotiate with you and present you to the
bank as her only relative.

I believe we can work things out together to achieve this goal with
all honesty and sincerity. I guarantee you that this transaction will
be done in a cordial manner such that our position and profession will
be protected during and after the claim.

And mind you that whomever I present to our bank as the relative to
our late customer, considering my position as the branch manager is
whom our bank will approve as the rightful relative that can claim the
asset she left.

I have concluded to share this money 50/50% of the total fund. If only
you will be honest and reliable!

If you are willing to work with me, reply to this email so that we
will discuss further how you are going to apply for this claim from
our bank head office through the department address I will pass on to
you after we have agreed to work together.

Yours sincerely

Alan Spencer

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