419 scam: Andreas Wolfgang <teste@transpaulo.com.br> Sample Order

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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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- intlagent1@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Andreas Wolfgang <teste@transpaulo.com.br>
Reply-To: Andreas Wolfgang <intlagent1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:48:00 -0200 (BRST)
Subject: Sample Order

Dear Sir/Madam,

We would like to introduce ourselves. We are one of the largest Marketing/Supply Firm in Germany with stations in Europe.

We are in market since 1999. We import products and we also have our business partners around Belgium, Italy, France, UK,

Canada, United states of America and Newzaland etc.We also engage in contracts and supplies with Cairn Energy plc, Jaj

Corporation, and Tuxisea ltd, just to mention but a few. We would like to complete our pending supply with your product and

hope you give us the best price offer if there is availability.We are very interested to do business with you.

We hope you can give us the best product list and CIF price to port of Berlin. We will appreciate if you send us your best

price offer at our email address detailed intlagent1@gmail.com. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

Thank you.

Andreas Wolfgang Marketing Manager

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