419 scam: "Dave Dobbie"<d.dobbie@ppbk.com> PARTNERSHIP REQUEST

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
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.
- d.dobbie@post.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dave Dobbie" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <d.dobbie@post.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:05:44 -0000
Subject: PARTNERSHIP REQUEST

24th Feb, 2012.

Good day,

I am Dave Dobbie, an external auditor, currently working with a team of external auditors that is retained by a financial institution here in the United Kingdom to audit its activities in the entire British Isles. I was intimated of your business pedigree by a colleague who had worked with the Chamber of Commerce. However, I have already sent you the same letter by post one month ago, but I am not sure if it did get to you since I have not heard from you, hence my resending it again via your email.

In the course of a routine audit of the financial records last year, I discovered an investment bank account that had been dormant for over fourteen years. This account belongs to a single beneficiary. Further investigation of the said account revealed that the investor, from your country, had died sometime in 1992, about the time the account was last operated. The said investor died intestate and as such, no next-of-kin has come forward all these years to lay claim to the investment.

I can assure you that we are completely in charge of the transaction and as such there is no risk what so ever if you decide to work with me secure the funds in this dormant account as you bear the same last name with this dead investor who is from your country. Our bilateral cooperation in this regard would entail your contacting the bank and applying as the only surviving relative of the deceased investor. I am in possession of all relevant documents (legal and Institutional) that will facilitate our achieving this goal.

It is however important to say that secrecy is of vital importance if we are to successfully reap the immense benefits of this transaction.

If you can be a collaborator to this please indicate interest immediately by contacting me on my personal email: d.dobbie@post.com for us to proceed. I shall feed you with full details of this transaction upon receipt of your responses towards this proposal.

Thank you for your time to read my mail and I hope to receive a response from you soon.

Regards,
Mr Dave DOBBIE.

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