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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Ella Golan" <amela.teskeredzic@untz.ba>
Reply-To: ellagolan866@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 20:43:53 +0800
Subject: Hello Beloved.

I want you to know that my reason for contacting you is very important and very legitimate.Please take this seriously. All I want is an honest business transaction with you. I will start by introducing myself. I am Ms.Ella Golan Executive Vice President Banking Division FIBI BANK ISRAEL,
Tel Aviv branch, Israel. I have been working with the FIRST
INTERNATIONAL BANK OF ISRAEL LTD (FIBI) for the past 10 years.

I am getting in touch with you regarding the estate of a deceased
client who had an investment placed under our bank’s management. I
would respectfully request that you keep the content of this mail
confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by
as a result of this mail. I contact you independently and no one is
informed of this communication.

In late 2006, the subject matter of a late Engineer who came to our
bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking
division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of $13M
(Thirteen Million US Dollars), which he wished to have us invest on
his behalf after being paid for his several concluded contracts with
Oil Refineries LTD (ORL) Israel. He used to work with the Oil
Refineries LTD (ORL) here in Israel, as foreign Expatriate.

Based on my advice, we spun the money around various opportunities and
made attractive interest margins for our first 2 years of operation,
the accrued profit and interest stood at this point at $609K (Six
Hundred and Nine Thousand US Dollars) in late 2009. He instructed us
that the principal sum and the accrued interest, Thirteen Million, Six
Hundred and Nine Thousand Dollars ($13.609M) be liquidated because he
needed to make an urgent investment. He directed that I liquidate the
funds and had it deposited with a security consultancy firm based in
London, United Kingdom. The firm is an especially private 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.

Unfortunately, on the 21st April 2011, my client/customer was involved
in a car accident along Yehuda Halevy St, Tel Aviv, Israel. All
occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. He neither
mentioned a next of kin or beneficiary in our records as well as the
records of the security firm. As his personal account manager and
financial adviser, the security firm as well as management of my bank
has been with me since last year till date to provide a next of kin or
beneficiary to his estate. Unfortunately, he died intestate, because
he neither had a wife nor child while he was alive. I feel he didn’t
make a mistake about this; he purposely wanted this money to go to
Charity after he died. However, he failed to know that when one who
has no next of kin or beneficiary dies, the State takes over his
estate and all he ever worked for.

What I propose is, since I have exclusive access to his file, you will
be made the beneficiary of these funds and sole executor to his
estate. No one is aware of his money apart from me and with proper
documentation; we can establish that you are the sole authorized
beneficiary. I am prepared to instruct the security firm to release
the deposit to you as his beneficiary. A beneficiary can be legally
assigned to any person who does not nominate a next of kin to an
estate. I know this might be heavy for you but please trust me on
this. In the banking sector, this happens daily, we see so much cash
and funds being reassigned daily. The other option is that the money
will revert back to the State to some corrupt top government officials
as I mentioned earlier.

Do not betray my confidence; all I require is your honest cooperation
to enable us to see this deal through. I guarantee you that this will
be executed under a legitimate arrangement that I will protect you
from and prevent any breach of law. Please know that I am a Hebrew
Woman and will not lie because of my religion and I would expect the
same from you. So kindly handle this as privileged information. Please
get back to me immediately and provide your full details (Full Name,
Residential Address, Office Address, Contact Number, Occupation, Age
etc). If you are positive we can do this together.

Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.

Regards

Ms. Ella Golan
Executive Vice President
Banking Division
FIBI BANK ISRAEL

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