419 scam: "PETER HORGE" <officepresidency10@yahoo.com.ph> Urgent reply needed soon

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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
- "transferred into your bank account" (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)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
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.
- peterhorge@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "PETER HORGE" <officepresidency10@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: peterhorge@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:09:26 +0600 (BDT)
Subject: Urgent reply needed soon

Dear Sir/Madam.

It is my pleasure to contact you as to discuss this transaction with you.
I will want to have your trust and to go into partnership transaction with
you which must be build on confidentiality between us.

My name are Mr Peter Horge, there is one of our customers that made fix
deposit for 7 fiscal years upon maturity; I sent a routine notification to
his forwarding address but got no reply. After some months, we sent a
reminder and finally we discovered from his business partner he passed
away after brief illness in his country. I tried everything humanly
possible to locate his relatives in GERMANY failed. The deposit is still
intact with my bank CITI BANK INTL LONDON and the interest is being rolled
over with the principal sum at the end of each year.

If this fund (Twenty Five Millions us dollars,25,000,000.00$) still left
dormant in the next couple of months the fund will be confiscated into the
government treasury as unclaimed fund. It is for these reason's that I
have seek for your urgent and sincere help to get this fund transferred
into your bank account, a bank account in any part of the world can
facilitate the transfer as the next of kin or business associate of the
depositor with this, the fund will be paid into any bank account that you
will provide.

To be honest with you, this transaction I have opened-up to you is totally
genuine and 100% risk-free. But the secret must remain between me and you,
I am assuring you because I have been working with this bank for many
years, hence I know all its secrets very well and I have carefully
mapped-out my perfect strategies to carry out this transaction
successfully. The depositor was my very close friend and I was his
personal financial adviser before his death, that being the main reason
why I alone working in the bank here, know much about the existence of
this fund and the secrets and the depositor. We shall also use part of the
fund to help the orphanage, people in the street and the less privilege
children in the world. Please keep this proposal as a top secret between
both of us, and delete it immediately in your email box if you are not
interested. If interested get back to me immediately here:
peterhorge@yahoo.co.uk

I wait for your response.
Mr Peter Horge.

Reply me here: peterhorge@yahoo.co.uk

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