419 scam: "pedro lopez" <pedrolopez480@aol.com> Mr. Pedro Lopez

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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:
- "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
- "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +34688210973 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
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.
- pedrolopez49@aol.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "pedro lopez" <pedrolopez480@aol.com>
Reply-To: pedrolopez49@aol.com
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:08:22 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Mr. Pedro Lopez

Mr. Pedro Lopez
ING Bank
José Ortega y Gasset 7 & 29
28006 Madrid,Spain.
Phone Number 0034 688 210 973
Please send your response to (pedrolopez49@aol.com)

Dear Sir/Madam
My name is Mr.Pedro Lopez, what I have that may be of interest to you is a
business proposal that will benefit you.I work with the ING Bank here in
Madrid Spain. The main reason I am writing to you is based on a Corporate
Bank account that has been lying dormant for some years now, it was owned
by a late Canadian industrialist.Due to my investigations, I found out
that she died on 22nd of September,2001 from injuries sustained from an
auto crash in venezuela, with no child, next of kin or relative.

But before her death she had mandated us to raise a draft to transfer the
funds in her corporate account to one, Mr.Daniel Raul, a contractor, being
payment for his contractual services for the supply and installation of
drilling equipments, and aviation parts made as supplies to her oil
servicing and aviation company in Venezuela.

Unfortunately he also died in the crash alongside with her while visiting
her in Venezuela. The fact that Mr.Daniel is the supposed beneficiary of
the funds is not known to anybody, except a few of us involved in this
transaction. We have for many years made frantic efforts to trace any of
his surviving relatives but to no success.If we do not trace any of his
relatives, then the funds will end up being reverted to the Netherland
Government or repatriated to Canada. We are therefore soliciting your
support in order for us to present you from the Company as the contractor
who had actually executed the contract and is entitlted to the funds in
the account as his contractual payment.

Once this is done, we will give a certain percentage of the funds to you
and keep the rest for ourselves. I will inform you more on how to get the
account transferred to you upon your response by email.I would want you to
have it in mind that this project is 100% risk free. Also have it in mind
that your area of specialization or Sex is of no importance to your
helping us in this impending transaction please feel very free to contact
me on this phone number
+34 688 210 973
EMAIL: (pedrolopez49@aol.com)
Yours faithfully,
Pedro Lopez

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