419 scam: "MR. SILVA NASCIMENTO." DEAR FRIEND

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- ",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)
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.
- silvanascimento148@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR. SILVA NASCIMENTO." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <silvanascimento332@yahoo.com.br>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:56:26 +0200
Subject: DEAR FRIEND

Dear Friend,

My name is Mr. SILVA NASCIMENTO. I am a Brasilian by Nationallity but live and work in uae (United Arab Emirates) with ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, as a branch manager in Dubai.

As we are about to close our yearly bank record last year, i discovered that one of our customers by name Mr. danel Ekong from Africa who was caught with a very large amount of cocaine and sentenced to death early last year left a large amount of money in his account...$8,500,000 (eight million, five hundred thousand usd) without any beneficiary. With my power as the manager i was able to transfer this fund to a commercial bank in Malaysia by name CHASE BANK (CB) without a beneficiary because of my position and the nature of the country i livie in to avoid any form of trace.

The reason why am writting you now is because the bank contacted me and asked me to present a beneficiary as soon as possible so as to transfer the money into the person's account immediately since the acount has been dormant for long time now.

If you can help me to transfer this money into your company's or personal acount am going to compensate you with 40% percent of the total money and take only 60% and if you wouldn't mind i may still want to invest my share in your company's business.

Please If the conditions are okay by you and you wish to asist me on this, let me have the following information of you..

FULL NAME............
CURRENT ADRESS.........
TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS.......
CURRENT ID CARD...........
OCCUPATION AND AGE......
ACCOUNT NUMBER..........

As soon as you send me the above requirements i will forward it to my lawyer to start the process immediately. i will send you my passport copy in my next mail to when i must have seen your inteset in this.

Best Regards

Mr. SILVA NASCIMENTO.
Call me on +971552541324
silvanascimento148@yahoo.com

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