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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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Fraud email example:

From: MR Evans Llorente <kkkkjkhk17@hgfdsxzz.dynu.com>
Reply-To: <mrevansllorente112@yandex.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:18:12 +0100
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL LETTER OF ASSISTANCE FROM MR Evans Llorente( OUR
Ref:ESP/0101/005/2016s)

Ref:ESP/0101/005/2016
Email:mrevansllorente112@yandex.com



Dear: Friend

My name is MR Evans Llorente, a Solicitor and legal attach? with a Bank here in Spain.Actually, I got your contact information through the records while searching for a last name similar to my late client's, an expatriate engineer who lived in Spain for decades and worked with the Mining and Smelting Company (Asturiana de Zinc S.A.), who perished and died along with his wife and son in a plane crash (Concorde Air Flight AF4590) with the whole passengers on board on 31 July 2000. And for your confirmation you can view this : website:(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm ).

Prior to my explaining further, I must first make an apology for this unsolicited letter to you. I am conscious that this is certainly not a predictable way of approach to foster a relationship of trust but because of the circumstances and urgency surrounding this claim I send you this letter.

Before the death of my client he deposited the sum of $12.7M (TWELVE MILLION, SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) with one of our branch here in Spain, but the money was deposited in a Reserved Premium Account for security reasons. The bank has waited for the heir to the money to contact them but nobody has come forward to claim the money. The bank senior directors now want to confiscate and reverts the money to the Bank treasury, as an unclaimed fund. So I decided to search for any of my late client's relative to stop the bank from seizing this money as he did not declare any other person, address, partner or relatives in the official paper works of his fund deposit.

After all efforts of search for a direct family member to my late client, my suggestion to you is that I will like you to stand as the next of kin. With the modality I have in place I can guarantee that if you follow my instructions the money will be released to us. This transaction is 100% risk free as I have worked out all modalities to complete the operation effectively.

Once the money is transferred to you, we shall share it on the ratio of 50% for you 50% for me. SO Kindly indicate your interest via my direct email mrevansllorente112@yandex.com for further clarification. Please kindly get back to me to enable me furnish you with more details and do not forget to include your full name,your full address ,your direct telephonr number and a copy of your ID as well .

Yours Sincerely,



MR Evans Llorente
Email: mrevansllorente112@yandex.com

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