419 scam: "Intercontinental Bank"<intercontinental@bank.com> (no subject)

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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Intercontinental Bank"<intercontinental@bank.com>
Reply-To: <intercontinental.bank01@yahoo.com>
Date:
Subject:

E-Card Unit Payment..
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 01:40:23 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
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charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 110404-1, 04/04/2011), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
Bcc:
Return-Path: intercontinental@bank.com
Message-ID: <JANALMS2u0ETfn2m2ey0000468f@mail.janalcase.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Apr 2011 23:45:26.0753 (UTC) FILETIME=[5F8A5510:01CBF322]

Attn:

The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Central Bank and Ministry of Finance has approved our bank, Intercontinental Bank to pay all outstanding debts to beneficiaries through our VISA / MasterCard Card payment system.

The stated amount will be loaded on the Card (Debit Card) which is operated like any globally accepted ATM card. At your instance response, the letter confirming this arrangement will be sent to you. We will equally send the processing form to you which you will feel and submit back to us. It will take four working days for the card to be processed, so the early you respond back, the better.

Regards,

Mr. Michael Chukwu

E-Card Unit
Intercontinental Bank

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