419 scam: "Mr Georgios samaras"<gsamaras2010@live.com> Hello Recipient,

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "(efcc)" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- georgiossamaras16@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Georgios samaras" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <georgios_samaras@in.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:53:46 -0700
Subject: Hello Recipient,

BUZON ABC & FUND CONSULTANT

MR. GEORGIOS SAMARAS

Hello Recipient,

Following the recent visit of Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Nigeria, she had urges Nigeria to embrace reforms, points to corruption as undermining its government and base on this new development, we at Buzon ABC & Fund Consultant, an Economics Expert from Greece have duly been consulted by the Nigerian Council of Elders In conjunction with the Economics Crime Financial Commission (EFCC) to resolve your bequest fund hitches. We write to authoritatively notify you that it has come to the notice of our Internal Analysis subdivision with the help of our Astuteness Monitoring Network. There is a description authenticating that you have a derelict or an ongoing transaction that have been experiencing some man made irregularities in Nigeria, because of the impostors that normally present themselves as the Nigeria bank officials with some of their Leading banks, such as CBN, Oceanic Bank, Zenith Bank and Intercontinental Bank, etc as listed in our files.

Meanwhile, during our pertinent Investigation, we have discovered why you have not been able to receive your payment before now, this is because you have been deceived and extorted some of your hard earned money by these corrupt bank officials in the name of transferring your fund into your bank account. Moreover, we also noticed that you have already fulfilled some of the financial obligations in respect of your fund and base on this substantiation; we have made contact with the bank responsible for with holding back your funds, instructing them to quickly release your fund to you or face the consequences of World Financial Crime. Therefore, with all these Clarifications and also to ascertain precision, you would be receiving your fund from one of the leading bank in United Kingdom, please note that this option is to cut out some of the unnecessary costs that are been demanded from you in the past. Due to our ongoing investigation, you are hereby advise to keep this communication privately as the Nigerian

We shall be waiting for your immediate communication with your direct telephone numbers through our official email address at (georgiossamaras16@yahoo.com ) to enable us pass more

vital information’s across to you.

Feel Free to ask any question.

Yours in Service,

Mr.Georgios Samaras

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