419 scam: "Anna Perez ESQ." <eurom0781@gmail.com> proposal

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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "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)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- intermoney00@europe.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
- ref: file/2526/024-06/2016 date: 17/10/2016 email: intermoney00@europe.com dear friend request for co-operation on a private (Europe; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Anna Perez ESQ." <eurom0781@gmail.com>
Reply-To: intermoney00@europe.com
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:44:40 +0200
Subject: proposal

--
PEREZ ADVOCATES ASSOCIATES
PETMART-Avda.de Europa 75, 28600 Madrid EspaÃ±a.
OUR REF: AY/024-01 2526/2011
YOUâ€™RE REF: FILE/2526/024-06/2016
DATE: 17/10/2016
Email: intermoney00@europe.com

Dear Friend
Request for Co-operation on a private Business Relationship

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
Though I
know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive
and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of
the
day.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. It may
surprise
you receiving this letter from me, since there was no previous
correspondence between us. My names is Anna Perez Esq. a personal
Attorney
to my late client

My purpose of contacting you is for you to help secure the funds left
behind by my late client, to avoid it being confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the Bank where this fund valued â‚¬4,800,000.00(Four
Million ,Eight Hundred Thousand Euros) deposited by my client before his
death.

The Bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin or the
account
will be declared unserviceable and the fund diverted to the Bank
treasury,
So far all my efforts to get a hold of someone related to the woman has
proved abortive. Hence, I have contacted you. I am actually asking for
your
consent to present you to the Bank as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my
late client's fund, since you have the same last name, so that the
proceeds
of this account can be paid to your account.

All the legal documentations to back up your claim as my client's next
of
Kin, I shall provide. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable
us
achieve this transaction.

I wish to point out that I want 20% of this money to be shared among
charity Organizations, while the remaining 80% is shared equally between
us. This transaction is entirely risk free. I will use my position as
the
clientâ€™s attorney to guarantee the successful execution of this
transaction. If you are interested, please contact me via Tel: + 34 631
586
489 Fax: email: info.us.ministerywarfare@gmail.com , upon your response,
I
shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that
will
help you understand this transaction well.

The intended transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law. However, if this
business
proposal offends your moral ethics, do accept my sincere apology.

If on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me, kindly get
back
to me with your interest for further explanations.
*Name:________________________________________
*Surname:______________________________________
* Address: ______________________________________
* TelePhone:_____________________________________
*Handy:________________________________________
* Date of birth:____________________________________
* Profession:______________________________________
* Nationalitit: _____________________________________
*country:________________________________________
*Direkte:e-Mail:___________________________________
* Date/signature:__________________________________
Kindest Regards

Anna Perez ESQ.

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