419 scam: "davidsmith" <smith@earthlink.com> Mutual Proposal

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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 next of kin scam.
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.
- email.smithdavid1916@hotmail.com (Hotmail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "davidsmith" <smith@earthlink.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: smithdavid1916@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 19:16:20 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Mutual Proposal

Dear.
Compliments of the day to you .I am Mr David Smith, Manager Audit
Accounting Department of a Bank (here in the U.K) and I would like to
know if this proposal will be worth while for your acceptance. I have a
Foreign Customer,Mr. Andreas Schranner from Germany who was an
Investor, Crude Oil Merchant and property magnate that was a victim
with Concord Air Line, flight AF4590 killing 113 people crashed on 25
July 2000 near Paris leaving a closing balance of Twelve Million Eight
Hundred Thousand British pounds (12.8m) in one of his Private
Accounts that was being managed by me as the Customer's then Account
Officer.Based on my security report, these funds can be claimed
without any hitches as no one is aware of the funds and its closing
balance except me and the customer (Now Deceased) as all his family
were killed in the unfortunate crash incident therefore, I can present
you as the Next of Kin and we will work out the modalities for the
claiming of the funds in accordance with the law.

If you are interested, to discuss in further details .Reply me
privately via this email.smithdavid1916@hotmail.com

Thank you,
Sincerely,
Mr Smith

N.B. In other for you to believe me honestly try and go through this
(website) before you start with me. Below is the website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

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