419 scam: "donnewilliams21@gmail.com" <julietmark30@gmail.com> (no subject)

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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 united states dollars" (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)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "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 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.
- donnewilliams21@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "donnewilliams21@gmail.com" <julietmark30@gmail.com>
Reply-To: donnewilliams21@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 22:54:55 -0800
Subject:

Good day dear

I will want our communication to be basically through email for now for
security reasons. I want you to partner with me in getting back the money
($3,000,000.00 USD) left behind in a fixed deposit account in our bank by a
citizen of the Philippines, Late Mr. Alberto Paulino. If this will endanger
your position and reputation, I would not have contacted you. This is safe
and beneficial. I am presently the operations manager of our Bank in the
United States of America. Please do not expose this transaction for any
reason, I will give you more information about myself, our bank and the
transaction itself once you write again.

Late Mr. Alberto Paulino lived and worked in a City here as an
international businessman. He deposited in our bank the sum of Three
Million United States Dollars($3,000,000.00) as fixed deposit. This deposit
has long matured and has gone dormant for about eight years. We tried to
reach him and could not. His telephone number could not be reached, emails
sent to him kept bouncing back as undelivered and we never got any response
from the letters posted to his residential address. This issue prompted me
to carry out an independent investigation about his whereabouts since he
did not provide a next of kin or beneficiary at the time he made the
deposit with us. I later realized with shock that he died sometime in
November 2012 of a heart related illness in a London hospital. His death
was not reported to our bank from that time till this moment and nobody in
our bank is aware of this. He was a kind hear-ted man. I pray may his
gentle soul rest in peace.

However, I have on my own made several inquiries at the Philippines embassy
and no information about him was found, which I find weird. My effort to
locate any of his relatives took me to the Philippines some months ago and
the regional passport office in Manilla informed me that the passport
number was irrelevant and not issued anywhere in the Philippines. Since
this is the issue, I want you to apply as the Beneficiary and business
partner and next of kin to the deceased to claim the deposit from our bank,
It does not matter whether you knew him or not, it doesn't matter if you
have any kind of relationship with him or not. I will guide you all the way
to make this claim a success.

Bear in mind that this is not a matter of being greedy or having ugly
morals, it is not the best to leave the money to eventually end up in
Government hands while we have the opportunity to live better with it. This
is a risk free transaction, as I am the operations manager of our Bank and
the final approval of your application will be done by my department. Once
it is approved, you will have the right to claim the money. And when it is
transferred to you, I will come to meet with you in your home country in
order to share the money which will be divided into two equal parts (50:50)
for each of us after deducting all the costs incurred in getting the money
transferred.
With my influence, our bank will tender the necessary documents to you to
enable a smooth transfer of the money into your bank account anywhere in
the world. Everything will be done legally, have no fear about this. Right
now, I have all the copies of the documents relating to the fixed deposit
Mr. Alberto Paulino made that you will file to back up this claim. All I
require now is your honest cooperation to enable us to make this claim a
success and we have to do this within the shortest time possible.

If you are willing to do this with me, write back and I shall inform you on
what to do next. If nothing is done immediately, the money will be returned
to the government treasury as an abandoned or unclaimed fund and we will
gain nothing from it. I am waiting for your consent in order to move to the
next step towards getting the fund.

Thank you and I am waiting for your reply.Email;donnewilliams21@gmail.com

Best Regards,
Mr. Donne Williams
Operations manager RBS

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