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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: "Luther Mendez" <li@huisong.net.cn>
Reply-To: luthermendez81@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 16:36:51 -0400
Subject: mtest localhost

From: Luther Mendez
Tele: +34 634 143 638
Email: luthermendezo@gmail.com


Attn:

I am Mr. Luther Mendez I am the manager of a Finance firm here in
Madrid , I am contacting you based on a financial opportunity I
discovered here in a Vault of our company. An abandoned sum of $26.7m
US dollars (Twenty six million seven hundred thousand United States
dollars) in our safety deposit vault, that belongs to one of our
foreign customers, a citizen of your country that shares the same
surname with you, who died along with his entire family on 11th March
2004 in a Madrid train bombing by the terrorist organization, here is
the link to watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLB3DVNQ9L4 , get back
to me on more details on how we can execute this.

Best of regards


Luther Mendez
luthermendez81@yahoo.com

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