inheritance in nigeria

hi help me i am a french guy, i meet an english guy on meeting website after long tchat he told me his father was expatried in nigeria where he lives and his father died 2 years ago and leaved him a big inheritance amount!but he didn't have the age he need a legal beneficary,and like he would come in france after he receive his inheritance and i was his friend he would than i could be this legal beneficary for him!he work with an american lawyer and ask me some money to open a file to became his legal beneficary in law!?well then he asked more money for tax clearance i didn't give him and he is still waiting for it!he call me and contact me to send him the money etc!i thinks he's a scam but i would be sure!i didn't write here anything about him and his lawyer because i do not know how do you proceed!?but i could do it!well i asked him is passport copy he gave me i have also have his adress in nigeria and his cellphone number,i have some paper about this lawyer too.could you help me to know his this passport has been stolen or if it a real one?if this guy is really one or if it is a scam?!i know this history is crazy i search a lots on the web and lots of story like this one!but this guy called me in a perfect english,and i do not know!

It is a scam and the person you are talking to is a liar and a thief.

You cannot legally stand as the beneficiary under a will if you are not a named beneficiary and a beneficiary doesn't have to pay anything to receive an inheritance. Nigeria also has stringent regulations that would never allow money to be sent abroad. I spent my life in banking, mostly on the international side.

It is sad to say that I learned that any document that had the word Nigeria on it, or involved Nigeria, was a fraud. Unfortunately fraud and corruption is endemic to Nigeria and it is second nature to many Nigerians. This type of fraud is very common.

[AlanJones]

hi help me i am a french guy, i meet an english guy on meeting website after long tchat he told me his father was expatried in nigeria where he lives and his father died 2 years ago and leaved him a big inheritance amount!but he didn't have the age he need a legal beneficary,and like he would come in france after he receive his inheritance and i was his friend he would than i could be this legal beneficary for him!he work with an american lawyer and ask me some money to open a file to became his legal beneficary in law!?well then he asked more money for tax clearance i didn't give him and he is still waiting for it!he call me and contact me to send him the money etc!i thinks he's a scam but i would be sure!i didn't write here anything about him and his lawyer because i do not know how do you proceed!?but i could do it!well i asked him is passport copy he gave me i have also have his adress in nigeria and his cellphone number,i have some paper about this lawyer too.could you help me to know his this passport has been stolen or if it a real one?if this guy is really one or if it is a scam?!i know this history is crazy i search a lots on the web and lots of story like this one!but this guy called me in a perfect english,and i do not know!

There is no doubt it is a scam and I've highlighted the points in your post that will be all to familiar to any of the support team here, as they are standard in a large number of advance fee scams.

I would expect that he is promising you a large % of his "inheritance" in return for helping him.

The passport will either be a fake or it will be a scan of one he has obtained from somewhere. The address that he has given you will be fake and the cell phone an untraceable pay as you go one.

You may think that his English is perfect, but he probably wouldn't be good enough to fool a natural English speaker.

thanks very much for all this information, but what is strange is than he have really a perfect english!?and he didn't promise me anyone euro nothing just to reimburse me that is all?!is there any solution to find the real guy to tell him is passport is used by scammer or to contact british consulat or police?!and same for this american lawyer?!

Could you post the passport here (fakemarked)? It may have signs of being tampered with. Also post some of his messages (copy-and-paste, don't retype). We should be able to recognize it as West African scammer talk.

The American lawyer is an invention of the scammer. The passport may be copied from a victim's passport or edited.

how can i do to send you all the details and the email are very long there is a lots can i send it to you by email?

Post the first few emails from him. Those are a script which he spams to huge numbers of targets; if they look for phrases in the script, they should find that they are scam. Once he gets a few responses and winnows down to a few victims, he starts getting off script, writing different things to different people.

You can put the passport at http://scamwarners.com/.

there is a few email they send to me:
Hello Sylvain


I acknowledge the receipt of your email in regards to assist my client upon his Inheritance as his legal beneficiary, Less we Proceed I am Raymond McClain a U.S official Attorney & Solicitor . I do not work during the weekends and i was on the trip to Nigeria which after arrival got me so tired with a long rest so far.

And based on this Kamcy Davidson is my client who has he's inheritance issues to get solved here in Nigeria , his father who is now deceased and has left him with a sum of (1,000,000USD) has brought him to the state of inheriting this amount .I am making this known to you that Kamcy my client has made me the legal and accredited Lawyer to deal with this transaction and no any other legal practitioners,solicitors,lawyers should be involved , In that cause he has also told me that he wants you as his legal beneficiary .

I also want to let you know that this funds were deposited in a security company with a Will from Kamcy's father to make sure this funds are utilized in a very good way for example like using the funds to Create good investment that would not tarnish in France this is part of an important area that you would help him deal with , so i must put this to you to make sure you help Kamcy to fulfill all this and i will also do my best to assist in every way that i can so that he doesn't lavish this huge amount on anything that wouldn't yield interest, He has told me in confident that he wants to have a better life in France with you And so please you have to in every way make sure Kamcy is in a good condition especially when it comes to investing with his money This is the most important way of helping him as you have asked.
Please i would like this transaction to be kept well and executed under a legitimate condition to save myself , Kamcy or Yourself from any breach of the law and that is why i am here to help as the legal lawyer to make this a success as the ethics of my profession would speak always DUE DILIGENCE AND PROFESSIONALISM.


More so i would make inquiries before today runs out and let you know , on how we need to proceed with making this transaction a success , as i have already made some verification's and this takes a process of 10 to 14 working days without any further delays. Your corporation as the legal beneficiary is highly needed and also to make yourself available with responding with my e-mails whenever you receive them as this is the only way for us to communicate since you are not here in physical.
As soon as i am done with my verification's i will not hesitate to reciprocate in due cause on how we can arrange the documents to proceed. Let me know if you understand the content of this e-mail.
Attached herein is my WORK ID CARD AND COPY/CALL TO BAR CERTIFICATE...


I hope to hear from you as soon as possible .


Yours Faithfully ,


Raymond McClain ESQ
and another
USD TRANSFERS)
CITIBANK NEW YORK


HOW TO RECEIVE MONEY (USD) FROM ABROAD THROUGH
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC, NIGERIA


Remitters of funds from abroad should inform their bankers as follows:
Please pay: UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC, NIGERIA
SWIFT CODE: UNAFNGLA


Through : CITIBANK NEW YORK
UNITED STATES
SWIFT CODE: CITIUS33
ROUTING NO: 021000089
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 36320321
FOR FURTHER CREDIT:
Beneficiary account number ……………………………………………………
Beneficiary name……………………………………………………………………..
Beneficiary address…………………………………………………………………
UBA branch………………………………………………………………………………








2.(EUR TRANSFERS)


CITIBANK LONDON


HOW TO RECEIVE MONEY (EUR) FROM ABROAD THROUGH
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC, NIGERIA


Remitters of funds from abroad should inform their bankers as follows:


Please pay: UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC, NIGERIA
SWIFT CODE: UNAFNGLA


Through : CITIBANK LONDON
SWIFT CODE: CITIGB2L
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 0013664082
SORT CODE : 185008
IBAN: GB29CITI18500813664082
FOR FURTHER CREDIT:
Beneficiary account number ……………………………………………………
Beneficiary name……………………………………………………………………..
Beneficiary address…………………………………………………………………
UBA branch………………………………………………………………………………
Payment details……………………………………………………………………….

some other:
Your role is to be Kamcy Legal beneficiary as he has mentioned to me , And by so doing this we would need to pass through the right procedures to retrieve the Inheritance Funds and moved to you in France on Kamcy's behalf. So at this time i am still on the cause of finding out with the Nigerian system what documents that we would be needing to make this a success. As soon as i am done i will let you know .


The details of yours are to be sent to me in a form of written note , and then the Passport or ID card copy has to be scanned and sent to me. Do not hesitate to get this sent across to me soon as you can have the chance too.
That would be all for now and will get back to you before the day runs out.


Raymond McClain Esq
another one
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Raymond McClain <[email protected]> wrote:

Thank you for the requested details which was forwarded to me in regards to this process. I have been able to fax a letter of release to the office of the security company with your details and i also spoke with the head of operations of the security company which made me understand that before they can give us the basic requirements for claim that there must be a non-revocable acceptance fee which must be paid by the legal benefactor/claimer before a claims file can be opened in the company in your name together with the basic requirements for claim. And also a Power of Attorney Document , this two process are the beginning of this Inheritance procedure which we have to abide to .


I have been told from the head of operations personnel the cost of opening the file in your name only , but i am still yet to verify with the High court on How much it would take to get the Power Of Attorney Document processed , So ones i am done with my verification of the total cost , I will let you know immediately, so that you can arrange on how you can make the Payment available here in Nigeria for pick up. I am trying all in my power to make sure that all this is executed under a high legitimate condition to avoid any error or breach of the Law.
Should you not understand anything in the content of this e-mail let me know immediately .


I will get back to you after my verification on the cost ASAP.

Yours Faithfully,

Raymond McClain. Esq

This "US attorney" has never been in the US. He writes like a Nigerian. Could you post his email address? Some potential victims look for email addresses.

yes sure!so it is really!?
and he try to call me every morning to ask the money
with this number actually +2347039866687
his adrress is kamcy davidson [email protected]
and his "american lawyer" raymond mac clain is email is [email protected]
sometimes he writed me from a blackberry!
and now he told me he is working in dubai than i could send him money in UAE instead of in nigeria there is less problem there!?so i do not know what thinking?!

He's thinking that the bank would consider sending money to Nigeria as suspicious since there are so many scammers there, so the scammer has an accomplice in the UAE who will forward money to him.

Your corporation as the legal beneficiary is highly needed and also to make yourself available with responding with my e-mails whenever you receive them as this is the only way for us to communicate since you are not here in physical.

The wrong word in that sentence is just one of many errors; it should be obvious to you, since both the wrong word and the correct word are the same in English as in French. It is not obvious to the scammer, whose first language is probably Yoruba or Igbo.