419 scam: "Richard Mendez"<richard.mendez@live.co.uk> Kindly Accept My Offer (60%

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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:

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:
- "richard.mendez00@live.co.uk" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- "richard.mendez00@live.co.uk" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Richard Mendez" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <richard.mendez00@live.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:53:47 +0100
Subject: Kindly Accept My Offer (60% - 40%)

Compliments,

I am Mr.Richard Mendez, The Operations Manager of the the Euromillion Lottery® Spain. I have contacted you based on a proposal that requires strict confidentiality and utmost sincererity. This proposal is worth £110M and I am willing to issue you 40% of the total sum if you are willing tto be my partner.

About May 2009, someone bought a Lottery Ticket from my region in Madrid and won £110M and until now we have not been able to locate this winner.Our rules states that after one year if the person is not found, we would declare the funds unclaimed and returned back to our treasury. It is believed that the winner might be a Tourist as all efforts to locate the winner have failed.
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/10/euromillions-lottery-spain-winner-search).All that would be required from you if willing is to register and play the Lotto online for free as I would direct you and my influence as the operations manager in Spain, I would Backdate the ticket and manipulate the winning numbers to correspond in your name and the total unclaimed winning funds would be issued to you.

My total guarantee is given as it took my more than 9months of systematic planning to work out the modalities for the success of this deal. If you are not interested in my proposal, kindly ignore this email, but if you are willing, kinldy reply to my private email on: richard.mendez00@live.co.uk and further information concerning this proposal would be issued to you.

Regards,
Mr.Richard Mendez
Email: richard.mendez00@live.co.uk

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