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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: "Raymond Chirac." <peterobrten296600@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rchirac2323@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:57:38 +0100
Subject: SUBJECT TO A CONFIRMATION

SUBJECT IS: SUBJECT TO A CONFIRMATION BY YOU ...
===================================================================
I Am Raymond Chirac, American Citizen And Principal Assurance Manager
For The JP Morgan Chase, A Staff Of HASHI Consulting Japan Got In
Touch With Me Regarding The Estate Of Philip Williams. And An
Investment Placed Under Our Banks Management 3 Years Ago. I Would
Respectfully Request That You Keep The Contents Of This Mail
Confidential And Respect The Integrity Of The Information You Come By
As A Result Of This Mail. I Contact You Independently Of Our
Investigation And No One Is Informed Of This Communication. I Would
Like To Intimate You With Certain Facts That I Believe Would Be Of
Interest To You.

In 2017, The Subject Matter; Philip Williams Came To Our Bank To
Engage In Business Discussions With Our Private Banking Division. He
Informed Us That He Had A Financial Portfolio Of $5.350,000.00 Million
United States Dollars [ Five Million Three Hundred & Fifty Thousand
United States Dollars ] Which He Wished To Have Us Turn Over ( Invest
) On His Behalf, I Was The Officer Assigned To His Case, I Made
Numerous Suggestions In Line With My Duties As The De-Facto Chief
Operations Officer, Especially Given The Volume Of Funds He Wished To
Put Into Our Bank We Met On Numerous Occasions Prior To Any
Investments Being Placed. I Encouraged Him To Consider Various Growth
Funds With Prime Ratings.

The Favored Route In My Advice To Customers Is To Start By Accessing
Data On 3000 Traditional Stocks And Bond Managers And 2000 Managers Of
Alternative Investments. Based On My Advice, We Spun The Money Around
Various Opportunities And Made Attractive Margins For Our First Months
Of Operation, The Accrued Profit And Interest Stood At This Point At
Over 10 Million United States Dollars, This Margin Was Not The Full-
Potential Of The Fund But He Desired Low Risk Guaranteed Returns On
Investments. In Mid-2018, He Asked That The Money Be Liquidated
Because He Needed To Make An Urgent Investment Requiring Cash Payments
In Switzerland.

He Directed That I Liquidate The Funds And Had It Deposited With
UNITED ASSETS MANAGEMENT AND SECURITIES GENEVA SWITZERLAND ( IN THEIR
SECURITIES TRADING FIRM ) I Informed Him That JPMorgan Chase Would
Have To Make Special Arrangements To Have This Done And In Order Not
To Circumvent Due Process, The Bank Would Have To Make A 6.5 %
Deduction From The Funds To Cater For Banking And Statutory Charges.
He Complained About The Charges But Later Came Around When I Explained
To Him The Complexities Of The Task He Was Asking Of Us. Cash Movement
Across Borders Has Become Especially Strict Since The Incidents Of
9/11. I Contacted My Affiliate In Geneva Switzerland And Had The Funds
Available In United Assets Management And Securities. I Undertook All
The Processes And Made Sure I Followed His Precise Instructions To The
Letter And Had The Funds Deposited At United Assets Management In
Geneva Switzerland.

United Assets Management And Securities Is A Specialist Finance Firm
That Accepts Deposits From High Net Worth Individuals And Blue Chip
Corporations That Handle Valuable Products Or Undertake Transactions
That Need Immediate Access To Cash. In-Line With Instructions, The
Money Was Deposited With the UNITED ASSETS MANAGEMENT AND SECURITIES
In Geneva Switzerland ( In Their Securities Trading Firm ).

Philip Williams Told Me He Wanted The Money There As Soon As He Got To
Geneva Switzerland, This Was The Last Communication We Had, This
Transpired Around 25th October 2018. In Sept, We Got A Call From
United Assets Management Informing Us About The Inactivity Of That
Particular Portfolio. This Was An Astounding Position As Far As I Was
Concerned, Given The Fact That I Managed The International Private
Banking Sector I Was The Only One Who Knew About The Deposit At United
Assets Management And I Could Not Understand Why Philip Williams Had
Not Come Forward To Claim His Deposit. I Made Futile Efforts To Locate
Philip Williams. Four Days Later, Information Started To Trickle In,
Apparently, Philip Williams Was Dead. A Person Who Fit His Description
Was Declared Dead Of AUTO ACCIDENT TRAUMA IN FRANKFURT GERMANY.

We Were Soon Enough Able To Identify The Body And Cause Of Death Was
Confirmed. The Bank Immediately Launched An Investigation Into
Possible Surviving Next Of Kin To Alert them About The Situation And
Also To Come Forward To Claim His Estate. In The Field Of Private
Banking, Opening An Account With Us Means No One Will Know Of Its
Existence, Accounts Are Rarely Held Under A Name; Depositors Use
Numbers And Codes To Make The Accounts Anonymous. This Bank Also Gives
The Choice To Depositors Of Having Their Mail Sent To Them Or Held At
The Bank Itself, Ensuring That There Are No Traces Of The Account And
As I Said, Rarely Do They Nominate Next Of Kin.

Private Banking Clients Apart From Not Nominating Next Of Kin Also
Usually In Most Cases Leave Wills In Our Care, In This Case; Philip
Williams Died In Testate. In-Line With Our Internal Processes For
Account Holders Who Have Passed Away, We Instituted Our Own
Investigations In Good Faith To Determine Who Should Have Right To
Claim The Estate. This Investigation Has For The Past Months Been
Unfruitful. We Have Scanned Every Continent And Used Our Private
Investigation Affiliate Companies To Get To The Root Of The Problem.
It Is This Investigation That Resulted In My Being Furnished With Your
Details As A Possible Relative Of The Deceased.

My Official Capacity Dictates That I Am The Only Party To Supervise
The Investigation And The Only Party To Receive The Results Of The
Investigation. You Have Unfortunately Declared, And I Know That You
Are In No Way Affiliated With This Individual. What This Means, You
Being The Last Batch Of Names We Have Considered Is That Our Dear Late
Fellow Died With No Known Or Identifiable Family Member.

This Leaves Me As The Only Person With The Full Picture Of What The
Prevailing Situation Is In Relation To The Deposit And The Late
Beneficiary Of The Deposit. According To Practice, United Assets
Management Will By The End Of This Quarter Broadcast A Request For
Statements Of Claim To JPMorgan Chase, Failing To Receive Viable
Claims They Will Most Probably Revert The Deposit Back To JPMorgan
Chase. This Will Result In The Money Entering The JPMorgan Chase
Accounting System And The Portfolio Will Be Out Of My Hands And Out Of
The Private Banking Division.

This Will Not Happen If I Have My Way. What I Wish To Relate To You
Will Smack Off Unethical Practice But I Want You To Understand
Something. It Is Only An Outsider To The Banking World Who Finds The
Internal Politics Of The Banking World Aberrational. The World Of
Private Banking Especially Is Fraught With Huge Rewards For Those Who
Occupy Certain Offices And Oversee Certain Portfolios. You Should Have
Begun By Now To Put Together The General Direction Of What I Propose.
There Is USD5.350,000.00 Million United States Dollars [ Five Million
Three Hundred & Fifty Thousand United States Dollars ] Deposited In
United Assets Management Geneva Switzerland.

I Alone Have The Deposit Details And They Will Release The Deposit To
No One Unless I Instruct Them To Do So. I Alone Know Of The Existence
Of This Deposit For As Far As United Assets Management Is Concerned,
The Transaction With Philip Williams Concluded When I Sent The Funds
To United Assets Management, All Outstanding Interactions In Relation
To The File Are Just Customer Services And Due Process. United Assets
Management Has No Single Idea Of The History Or Nature Of The
Deposit. They Are Simply Awaiting Instructions To Release The Deposit
To Any Party That Comes Forward. This Is The Situation. This Bank Has
Spent Great Amounts Of Money Trying To Track This Man’s Family; They
Have Investigated For Months And Have Found No Family.

The Investigation Has Come To An End.

My Proposal, I Am Prepared To Place You As The Next Of Kin In A
Proposal To Instruct United Assets Management To Release The Deposit
To You As The Closest Surviving Relation. Upon Receipt Of The Deposit,
I Am Prepared To Share The Money With You In Half. That Is: I Will
Simply Nominate You As The Next Of Kin And Have Them Release The
Deposit To You. We Share The Proceeds 50/50.

I Would Have Gone Ahead To Ask The Funds Be Released To Me, But That
Would Have Drawn A Straight Line In My Involvement In Claiming The
Deposit. I Assure You That I Could Have The Deposit Released To You
Within A Few Days. I Will Simply Inform The Bank Of The Final Closing
Of The File Relating To Philip Williams, I Will Then Officially
Communicate With United Assets Management And Instruct Them To Release
The Deposit To You. With These: All Is Done.

I Am Aware Of The Consequences Of This Proposal. I Ask That If You
Find No Interest In This Project That You Should Discard This Mail. I
Ask That You Do Not Be Vindictive And Destructive. If My Offer Is Of
No Appeal To You, Delete This Message And Forget I Ever Contacted You.

Do Not Destroy My Career Because You Do Not Approve Of My Proposal.
You May Not Know This But People Like Myself Who Have Made Tidy Sums
Out Of Comparable Situations Run The Whole Private Banking Sector.

I Am Not A Criminal And What I Do, I Do Not Find Against Good
Conscience, This May Be Hard For You To Understand, But The Dynamics
Of My Industry Dictates That I Make This Move. Such Opportunities Only
Come One's Way Once In A Lifetime. I Cannot Let This Chance Pass Me
By, For Once I Find Myself In Total Control Of My Destiny. These
Chances Won’t Pass Me By. I Ask That You Do Not Destroy My Chance If
You Will Not Work With Me Let Me Know And Let Me Move On With My Life
But Do Not Destroy Me. I Am A Man And This Is An Opportunity To
Provide Myself With New Opportunities. There Is A Reward For This
Project And It Is A Task Well Worth Undertaking. I Have Evaluated The
Risks And The Only Risk I Have Here Is From You Refusing To Work With
Me And Alerting My Bank.

I Am The Only One Who Knows Of This Situation, Good Fortune Has
Blessed You With A Name That Has Planted You Into The Center Of
Relevance In My Life. Let’s Share The Blessing. If You Give Me
Positive Signals, I Will Initiate This Process Towards A Conclusion. I
Wish To Inform You That Should You Contact Me Via Official Channels; I
Will Deny Knowing Anything About This Project.

I Repeat, I Do Not Want You Contacting Me Through My Official Phone
Lines Nor Do I Want You Contacting Me Through My Official Email
Account, Contact Me Only Through This Email Address (
rchirac2323@gmail.com )

My Official Lines Are NOT Secure Lines As They Are Periodically
Monitored To Assess Our Level Of Customer Care In Line With Our Total
Quality Management Policy. Please Observe This Instruction
Religiously. Please, Again, Note I Am A Man, I Have a Wife And
Children. I Send You This Mail Not Without A Measure Of Fear As To
What The Consequences, But I Know Within Me That Nothing Ventured Is
Nothing Gained And That Success And Riches Never Come Easy Or On A
Platter Of Gold.

This Is The One Truth I Have Learned From My Private Banking with
Clients. Do Not Betray My Confidence. If We Can Be Of One Accord, We
Should Plan A Meeting Soon and Lastly if you know that you will NOT
have the time or cannot create attention for this Business Deal
Proceeding .. Do not bother to reply back but if you know that you
will create the time and attention by Exchanging emails with me
atlease 2-3 times daily... Then get back to me, We only have 2 weeks
to accomplish this Milestone Opportunity.

I Await Your Response.
Respectfully,
Raymond Chirac.
My Private USA Phone Number : +1 ( 731 ) 313 - 7704

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