419 scam: "Lani Li"<lanili01@qatar.io> BUSINESS PROPOSAL

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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: "Lani Li" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lanili@qatar.io>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:09:27 +0100
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Good day,

Pardon me for not having the pleasure of knowing your mindset before making you
this offer and it is utterly confidential and genuine by virtue of its nature. I
cannot imagine the surprise this will bring to you, but please be rest
assured is with good faith and intentions from a friend in dare need of your
assistance.I am a, staff of Private Banking Services at the Bank of China (BOC). I am contacting
you concerning our customer and, an investment placed under our banks
management 5 years ago.

I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail
confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by
as a result of this mail. I contacted you independently since no one is informed of this communication.
I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you.
In 2005, the subject matter; ref: bb/boc/bank/00/12 came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our
Private Banking Services Department.

I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing
gained and that success and riches never come easy, not on a platter of gold.

If you are interested, email me for details, please.

Kind regards,

Lani Li

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