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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: ryan@ryansather.com
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 15:56:43 -0000
Subject: Incident: J7uD1sX2qZ9

FORWARD THIS MAIL TO WHOEVER IS IMPORTANT IN YOUR COMPANY AND CAN MAKE DECISION!

We Hacked network.
We Caught Communications.
We Backuped DATA And DOCUMENTS.
We send this mail to you in YOUR account.

After analyzing documents. We found Illegal activity - HIDING TAXES.

That we want?

I want two (2) Bitcoin
To wallet Bitcoin.
1Dz7DbQmE7SNm3C5mb9syPcctgZECcCEbL

That we do if you don't pay bitcoin?

We send these Documents and Proofs to your Tax Department.

And in this time Your network will be DDoS.
Read that in this link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

We are locking your operation system. Our friends, WannaCry, ready start and waiting command.
Read that in this link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack

This is our guarantee, that you don't clean evidence and building a protection policy.

If you don't pay by in 7 days, attack will start.

Attack including.

1.DDOS
2.Locking operation system
3.Sending all documents in Tax Departament

Yours service going down permanently and price to stop will increase to Four (4) BTC,
Price will go up one (1) BTC for every day of the attack.

This is not a joke.

Our attacks are extremely powerful - sometimes over 1 Tbps per second.
And we pass CloudFlare and others remote protections!
So, no cheap protection will help.

Prevent this problem all with just Two (2) BTC
Pay to our wallet Bitcoin.
1Dz7DbQmE7SNm3C5mb9syPcctgZECcCEbL

Pay strict sum. This is your identification. And we will know that its you.
AND YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN HEAR FROM US!

If you read, hear fake-experts and assure yourself that this is not true.
Remember that they are not responsible and your life don't important him.
Their business is to speak and make money.
Your business to do and make money and stay freedom.

Bitcoin is anonymous, nobody will ever know you cooperated.

Time started after open this mail.
To track the reading of a message and the actions in it, I use the facebook pixel.
Read that in this link
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/898185560232180?helpref=faq_content

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