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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: "Andras Corea" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <andras.corea.87@mail.ru>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 07:07:20 -0700
Subject: Regards

This is to notify you that after the auditors have gone through your
documents we found out that you have not paid the last fee, so pay up the
last fee and your fund will be released to you.

Regards

Nota de descargo: La informacion contenida en esta comunicacion es confidencial, puede estar sujeta a privilegios legales, puede constituir informacion interna, y solo esta dirigida al uso del destinatario. El uso, retencion, difusion, divulgacion o copia de esta comunicacion sin la autorizacion de PROINMOBILIARIA S.A. esta estrictamente prohibida y puede ser contraria a la ley. La compania no asume responsabilidad sobre la informacion, opiniones o criterios contenidos en este correo electronico.----PROINMOBILIARIA S.A.------ (Las tildes han sido omitidas intencionalmente para evitar problemas de lectura).

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