419 scam: "Dr.Richard Bright"<drrichardb@yahoo.com> Greetings,

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Richard Bright" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dr.richardbright@ymail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 16:44:33 -0800
Subject: Greetings,

Greetings,

I apologize for sending this sensitive information via e-mail instead of a Post-mail. This is due to the urgency of the information.

First, it will be my great pleasure to introduce myself. I am Dr. Richard Bright, native of United Kingdom and the executive fund Manager with ANZ Financial Institution United Kingdom. I handle all our Investors Capital Project Funds. And I was able to extract 1.2% investors Excess Return Capital Funds from our ANZ Trust Funds Account for my personal use.

The total sum of US$14m has been extracted representing the 1.2% Excess Return Capital Funds from the Investors Capital Project Funds for 2010/2011. This fund has been moved to a Finance firm account for safe keeping. I am contacting you because i need a reliable and trustworthy person abroad, i will entrust the funds to his/her care for investment purpose.

There is no risk attached and the investment funds in question can never be detected or traced. So if you have Knowledge of business in the following sectors: Real Estate, Tourism, Stock speculation, Film Industries, Mining, Oil, Transportation and Tobacco or a solid background and idea of making good profit in any business sector in your country, please write me for possible business co-operation.

Thanks and waiting to hear from you.

Sincerely,
Dr.Richard Bright

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