419 scam: YOUR FUND <jamessleedss@hotmail.com> Your Fund Is Ready For Transfer

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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:
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "dear beneficiary," (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
- "jdames@blumail.org" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: YOUR FUND <jamessleedss@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jamesl1@blumail.org
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:59:27 -0500
Subject: Your Fund Is Ready For Transfer

--
Dear Beneficiary,

This is to remind you that your fund has been approved for payment. We are
contacting you to re-confirm your account coordinates, so that we will
NOT make
wrong transfer of your fund and we would not be held liable due to wrong
disbursement of your fund. However we received an email from one
Mrs.Kwok Chui Mei,
Trase: Flat B, 38/F, Tower 2, Nam Fung Plaza, 8 Pui Shing Road, Hang
Hau, Tseung
Kwan O, Kowloon, Hong Kong, who told us that he is your next of kin
and that you
died in a car accident four months back,the sudden change of account
details is
suspecious.She has also submitted her account information to our
accounts/audit
department for transfer of the fund to her as your inheritor of the
fund stated
herein.

We are now verifying by contacting your email address as we have in
our Bank records
before we can make the transfer into her account and for us to
conclude confirmation
if you are dead or still alive. Please, should this notification from
has been in
the contrary,you should urgently reply confirmating to my office that
you are still
alive,As soon as we confirm from you we shall forward to you the
payment information
stated below:This account information below was presented to us by
Mrs.Kwok Chui
Mei, Trase where he would want the fund of USD$4,500,000.00 to be
transferred into:

BENEFICIARY:BANK

HSBC BANK

A/C NO 829-090414-833 A

A/C NAME: KWOK CHUI MEI TRASE

Let us know as soon as possible if you are the one that gave
authorization to this
effect and the order to transfer your fund into the said
account.However, you should
urgently re-confirm your full receiving bank details if on the contrary,we are
Looking forward to hearing from you. EMAIL(jdames@blumail.org)

Thanks,

Yours Faithfully

Mr.James D.Leeds

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