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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: "INFORMATION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sergioermotti@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:06:09 -0700
Subject: info

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 being

mornitored.

I am Fábio the son to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva former president of Brazil who was

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

news.

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

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

help us secure our family 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 our 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 give 30% to anybody that can help us arrange good bank account that can

carry the money.

He instructed me to give the contact of his international wealth manager to you, so that

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

telephone calls are bieng monitored we are carefull about that.

He instructed me never to make direct contact with his international wealth manager for

security reasons.

With the present political situations here in Brazil, things needs to be done fast.
We have nothing left with us we survive by donations from The Lula Institute.
They confiscated all our family bank accounts and international passport, there is no money

left with us, we need to make things fast because we are on political battle and needs

money to carry on. elections are coming, we need to make things fast. if something fast is

not done they must surely come after our oversea wealth.

We will compesate you very well if you can arrange bank account with out much delay.

For standing by our side to support our family secure our wealth, we shall give you 30% of

the funds and 70% shall be invested for us. it will be dicussed, agreed on perecentage and

make a trust agreement before any thing can be done we must sign a trust agreement as

instructed by my father.

The funds is 1.3 billion USD losing it is not good if we lose it we are finished that is

why we can give 30% to anybody that can help us secure it.

You must arrange a clean bank account for wire tranfer.

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

reasons.

There is no risk involve, we are good family this is just political persecution because my

father is very popular every Brazilian loves him they are afraid he will always win.

Contact me so that I can give you the private number the international wealth manager.

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

I am waiting to revieve goodnews from you.

Best Regards

Fábio Luís da Silva
The Lula Institute
Rua Pouso Alegre, 21
Ipiranga, São Paulo
CEP: 04261-030
Brazil
Fone: (11)2065-7022
http://www.institutolula.org

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