419 scam: "Thomas Hernandez" <hernandezthomas1971@gmail.com> Your Kind Attention Required

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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:
- "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "Thomas Hernandez" <hernandezthomas1971@gmail.com>
Reply-To: thomashernandez56@yahoo.es
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:43:49 +0100
Subject: Your Kind Attention Required

Dear,

My name is Barrister Mr. Thomas Hernandez.

I am writing to notify you of the unclaimed inheritance deposit of my Late
client, Mr. Kamochkin Sergey, who passed to the Great beyond on Tuesday,
August 24, 2004 in the Siberia Airlines Tu-154 Crash.

You should browse through the link below to view more information about
the Passengers and the incident:
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=54591 ).

I got your contact address through a web search engine in my quest to get
a reliable party who shall work with me to claim a deposit made by my
Deceased client with a financial institution in Spain, since all my
efforts to get the biological relative has proved abortive.

Please revert back to me urgently with your telephone and fax numbers for
more information on the amount of inheritance, procedure and legality of
this claim via this email address.

Thanks.

Regards,
Barr. Thomas Hernandez.
(Attorney At Law)

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