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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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From: find group <findgroup@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 07:28:17 +0000
Subject: Good day dear


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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