419 scam: "Mr.Milton Winsh" <hhhpppggg@yahoo.com> Your Acceptance.

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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:
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Milton Winsh" <hhhpppggg@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: miltonassetmgmt@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:08:55 -0500
Subject: Your Acceptance.

Good Day,

I am an investment consultant working with Lloyds TSB Bank London,I will be
happy to work this deal out with you if you have a corporate or personal Bank
Account and if you are capable to keep TOP SECRET. I need strong
Assurance that
you will never let me down, if I transfer this money to your account, we are
One of the largest and oldest independent self managed funds
management company
with over $134billion Capital Investment Funds.

Nevertheless, as an Investment consultant, I handle all our Investor's Direct
Capital Funds and secretly extract 1.5% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit
(EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's Magellan Capital Funds.

As an expert, I have made over $38.6 Million from the Investor's EMRCP
and I am
hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive
the funds as Annual Investment Proceeds from Magellan Capital Funds.

All confirmable documents to back up the claims will be made available to you
prior to your acceptance.

Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and technicalities whereby the
funds can be claimed in any of our Clearing banks without any hitches. Our
sharing ratio should be 60-40, I think this is fair.

If you are interested, Please email me your direct telephone number and
complete Name and Address for discussion of this transaction in
further detail.

Sincerely,

Mr. Milton Winsh

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