419 scam: "Mr. William Parker" <mrwilliamparker7@sify.com> VERY URGENT

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "huge sum of money" (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)
- "hundred thousand great british pounds" (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)
- "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
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.
- williamparker1975@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. William Parker" <mrwilliamparker7@sify.com>
Reply-To: williamparker1975@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:37:28 -0800
Subject: VERY URGENT

Dear Friend,

My name is Mr. William Parker; I am a senior banker in a bank here in the
United Kingdom.

I am contacting you for a business transfer of a huge sum of money from a
deceased account. Though know that a transaction of this magnitude will make
any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that every document
that will bring about the success of this transaction will be provided by an
attorney here in London, and all will be well at the end of the day.

I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction. The deceased
person who died Neal Walker died in air crash along with his wife on the 31st
October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board was an
American Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals
Corporation.
You can confirm his death from the website below which was published by BBC
WORLD NEWS.WEBSITE.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm

Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this
money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident himself and his
wife (May their soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his
account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, I now seek your
permission to stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations
will be carefully worked to make you the beneficiary to the funds
#6,100 000 00
GBP (Six million, one hundred thousand Great British pounds sterling) which
will be released in your favor as the next of kin, Because after ten years the
money will be called back to the bank bond treasury as unclaimed bills and the
money shared amongst the directors of the bank. So it is on this note
I decided
to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this
funds rather than allow the bank directors to share this money amongst them at
the end of the year. It may interest you to know that we have secured from the
probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business
endeavor by furnishing me with the following information if you are
interested.

1. Full names and address,
2. Telephone and fax Number.
3. Occupation
4. A scan copy of your international passport or driver?s license.

For our personal contact and mutual trust in each other I shall be
compensating
you with 50% of the above amount on final conclusion of this project for your
assistance, the balance 50% shall be for me, because I intend to retire after
the conclusion of this transaction.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me
immediately. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed
in you, I
await your urgent mail now on my private email (williamparker1975@gmail.com)

Best Regards,

Mr. William Parker.

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