419 scam: "From Miss Doris Kumar"<info@hotmail.co.uk> IF YOU ARE INTERESTED GET BACK TO ME

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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.
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.
- miss.doriskumar01@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "From Miss Doris Kumar" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <miss.doriskumar01@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:17:29 +0530
Subject: IF YOU ARE INTERESTED GET BACK TO ME

Hello Sir, Compliments of the day!

I am Doris Kumar a junior staff of a small scale industry,that produce medicines for treatment of animal in UK.I will like to introduce you to an urgent business that can change both of our life. I got your email contact information from India business search when I was searching for Indian reliable business company.

My boss wants to come to India and buy some chemical for animal medicine and we can get this chemical only in India. I will give you the contact of the Local dealer in India so that you can buy from them and sell to my boss at a very high price,

The local dealer is selling the chemical at the rate of 12,500 dollars and my boss will buy it from you at the rate of 30,000 dollars per one Gallon of five liters. And I and you will share

the gain you will make from my boss.

If you are interested I will forward the full contact of my boss and the local dealer to you,so that you can contact them.

Please reply me only if you are intrested.

From

Miss . Doris Kumar.

E-mail miss.doriskumar01@hotmail.co.uk

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