419 scam: "Mr. Wang Qin" <wqin@yahoo.com> Hello

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "i will give you 35% " (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Wang Qin" <wqin@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: wqin02@w.cn
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:09:35 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Hello

Dearest One,

Compliments of the season to you, allow me to introduce myself, I am the
personal Assistant to Mr. Wang Qin, Staff of Standard Chartered Bank. I am
writting in respect of a Chinese customer of my bank Mr. Zhu Li,dual
citizen of China , who died in a plane crash on Monday, September 2, 1998
GMT 14:22 UK while he was flying from New York toGeneva.

I got your email account while searching for a business oriented
personality in my private study on the internet.

Please see for more information.

http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

The late Mr. Zhu Li left in our deposit the sum of seventy five million,
seven hundred and fifty thousands dollars and nobody will ever come for
this money because there is no next of kin in his documents.

I am the only person that is aware of this money since Mr. Zhu Li did not
give to my institution any next of kin to inherit his money. Now, I want
to use my position in the bank to transfer this money to your country for
investment.

if you would reply to this mail of your acceptance of this proposal of
seventy five million, seven hundred and fifty thousand. I will give you
35% of this entire fund while the remaining 65% shall be for me, I am
hoping to get a favorable response from you.

Please send an email to my Private email below, so that i will provide you
more details about this transaction, and how we can successfully carry out
this transaction without any risk involved. email: c

Regards,
Mr. Wang Qin.

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