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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:

Fraud email example:

From: "INFORMATION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <oversea.post@bk.ru>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 23:27:39 -0000
Subject: INFORMATION

Dear Sir,
All inquiries made about you shows that you are honest, reliable trustworthy and

confidencial when it comes to money matters, that is why I am making this contact for

mutual benefits
All my efforts to reach you directly on your private telephone explain in details could not

work out due to our present security, political situations in Brasil.I deemed it wise to

contact you through this email for security reason because all our telephones are

beingmornitored.

I am Marisa the wife of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the former president of Brasil who was

jailed for political reasons. You can get the news from the internet or from your local

news.

Yesterday, I visited my husband in the prison. He instructed me to look for honest,

reputable, reliable and trustworthy person with international expirience and expert advice

with matured understanding to help us secure our remaining weailth in his or her company"s

bank account untill the political situations in Brazil becomes calm.
He instructed to move everything fast into a secured bank account so that we will not loose

all.He intructed me to understand that his political enemies and wicked men has vowed to

destroy our family political future.
All the allegations are false it is political humiliations and intimidations.

He instructed me to introduce his international wealth manager to you, so that you can

arrange with him on how everything will move without delay, because all our family

telephone calls are bieng monitored and we are carefull about that.

With the present political situations here in Brasil, things needs to be done fast.
They have confiscated all our family bank accounts in Brazil, if something fast is not done

they must surely come after our oversea bank account.

I will compesate you very well for standing by our side to help our family, it will be

dicussed, agreed on a perecentage and make a trust agreement before any transfer will be

made into your bank account.

All details cannot be given to you with out signing an MOU/NDA for security reasons.

Contact me so that I can give you the private number of my husband's international wealth

manager.He will give you full details.

Always remember to keep this information 100% secret, please understand.

I am waiting to revieve goodnews from you.

Best Regards

Marisa
On behalf of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Family

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