419 scam: Adolfo Remirez <oab34erqrppwar@btconnect.com> Urgent response required

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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:
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "alfonso.juan23@gmx.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- "alfonso.juan23@gmx.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: Adolfo Remirez <oab34erqrppwar@btconnect.com>
Reply-To: Adolfo Remirez <alfonso.juann12@gmx.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 20:07:57 +0100
Subject: Urgent response required

Good day,
I am Barrister Adolfo Remirez, am from Spain, Sole executor to a late client who was an independent gold dealer lived in Europe and died in Ghana but had businesses in Ghana and the Middle East.
He left a total of $31,000,000.00 (Thirty One Millions United States Dollars) deposit and bonds, held in a Finance house in Europe. Since his death, I have tried to locate his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail. More so, I have received official letters from the Finance house last week suggesting a likely proceeding for the confiscation of these abandoned personal assets; in line with existing European laws.
This deal by virtue of its nature must be utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that this will be done under a legitimate arrangement that will protect both of us from any breach of the law.
On this note, I decided once more to search for a potential family member (however distant). I need your consent to present you as the Inheritor to the deceased, because you share the same LAST NAME with him.
To indicate your interest and readiness to stand as the Inheritor to my deceased client. Feel free to provide me with the listed information:
1, Your Full Name:
2, Full Address:
3, City: State: Country: Zip Code:
4, Mobile No:
5, Age:
6, Work Status:
The requested information will be used for application of claims. Write me back on my Official email : aremirez@adolfofmail.com Or my Private email: alfonso.juan23@gmx.com with the required Informations as above.

Faithfully,
Barr. Adolfo Remirez.
Official email : aremirez@adolfofmail.com
Private email: alfonso.juan23@gmx.com
Tel/Fax: 011 34 911 820 277
Restorative Justice, Int.Financial Fiduciary (Attorney-At-Law) Spain.

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