419 scam: "Miss. David R. Hills" <rose_hills00@virgilio.it> Atten: Beneficiary,

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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:
- ",000,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss. David R. Hills" <rose_hills00@virgilio.it>
Reply-To: rose_hills@virgilio.it
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:37:23 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Atten: Beneficiary,

Atten: Beneficiary,
I submitted the list of companies executed contracts with
United Nations on January 1995-1998 to United Nations Foreign Debt Settlement,
this is on aim with United Nations meeting head in May last year to settle all
outstanding debt.

Over two weeks of the committee verification is yesterday my
office received the following from United Nations Foreign Debt Settlement. File
No: 002901, United Kingdom Inspection Cooperation (UKIC) Ref: No #:
GNP/3480/02/00, Contract No#: UNB/UKI/V1233/PPC-X29/98, Contract balance
payment US$22,000,000.00, Special Duties Office Approved No #:
LM/05/371NGF/2010, United Kingdom National Procurement Corporation (UNNPC)
Approve No #: UNNPC/FMFNG002/CBL/DF101,Payment Ref No #: 111162AP.

In this
form your company name was list among the beneficiary to receive her contract
balance payment, furthermore be inform that you will receive your contract
balance payment through our Escrow account with Bank of America, the bank was
instructed to pay you as beneficiary over owed contract fund of 1998.

Therefore send your information for payment, i contact you on behave of your
company as we did not have any other person contact and your email name was
listed from the file sent to my office as beneficiary.

Yours Faithfully
Miss.
David R. Hills
United Nations Debt
Settlement Committee

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