419 scam: "Mark.Deacon"<officefin017@gmail.com> From Mark.Deacon

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- officefin017@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mark.Deacon" (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:21:56 +0100
Subject: From Mark.Deacon

Dear,

My Company is a full-service financial and investment management law
firm based in Europe, with expertise in litigation and business law
and a strong consumer focus in family wills and estate, and personal
injury law. We provide legal services to prominent individuals and
families in Europe and outside Europe, including leaders in banking
and finance, political office holders and private international
businessmen. We represent personnel in financing, corporate
transactions and commercial litigation as well as in corporate
reorganizations and bankruptcies.

While you read this message be calm and do not get over-excited, while
strong privacy has to be maintained, since the essence of
communicating with you is because of your personality, and to see if
you can discuss with me on matters concerning my late client, who left
behind some fund before his death. The fund has been in intestacy and
will soon be going away to the government if it is not claimed within
a short given space of time as there is no WILL.

Because of its nature, this investigation requires high privacy. You
can contact me by email (officefin017@gmail.com) for further
information, whom I believe from my investigations that we can discuss
investing the fund in your country or any country you might deem
right.

I await your soonest response.

Best Regards

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