419 scam: Mrs elisabeth <dr_johnhansen@yahoo.com> Dearest,

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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:
- "huge sum of money" (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)
- ",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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs elisabeth <dr_johnhansen@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: elisabeth_goldgate@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:29:51 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Dearest,

Dearest,

My name is Elisabeth Goldgate, I am an account officer in a bank here in the United Kingdom. I am contacting you for a business transfer, of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything has been well taken care off, and all will be well at the end of the day.

I am the account officer of a foreigner who died in an air crash along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board. Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased because you bear the same last with him and to claim the funds he deposited in our bank worth Eight million, Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds Sterling (£8,500,000.00)

Therefore, it is on this note I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to share this money amongst them at the end of the year.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by responding to this letter. I shall be compensating you with 40% of the total sum on conclusion of this project for your assistance. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you by informing you of this transaction from my bank, as I will advise you to kindly desist from responding at all if you do NOT intend to render any assistance. Endeavor to respond via my secured email address. Thanks.

Best regards,

Elisabeth Goldgate.

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