419 scam: Hatah Alayi <mr_hatah@sify.com> Dear Friend

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Hatah Alayi <mr_hatah@sify.com>
Reply-To: mr.hatah01@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:50:14 +0200
Subject: Dear Friend

Dear Friend
(From Mr Hatah Alayi.)

I am contacting you for a business transfer of $10.5M (Ten Million and Five Hundred United States Dollars) from an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in Afghanistan war on May 5th, 2009. Since we discovered his death, none of his relations has come forward to claim this money. On my investigations as his personal account manager, I confirmed that his purposed next of kin (HIS WIFE) died along side with him too.

Now, The bank cannot release the fund from his account unless someone apply for claim as his next of kin as indicated in our banking guidelines. I have all the necessary information about his account and as such, I want to present you as his next of kin so that the fund will be release to you.

Please contact me for more details about this deal: We have to start the process immediately to avoid our bank to send the fund to central bank of Burkina Faso as unclaimed fund

Best Regard,
Mr Hatah Alayi.

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