419 scam: "Iliko Maghalashvili" <pao@geo.gov.ge> READ AND RESPOND .

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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.
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.
- raubenette@rocketmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Iliko Maghalashvili" <pao@geo.gov.ge>
Reply-To: benetterau@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 15:13:14 +0400
Subject: READ AND RESPOND .

Dear Sir,

I am Rau Benette, I work as the Fund Executive Manager with HSBC wealth and
Investment Management UK, the world leading Investment & Fund Management
Institution based in United Kingdom, Ireland/Channel Island. I have an
investor under my portfolio with a closing balance of12.5 Million Euros in
fixed deposit.who died on March 22, 2003 in the line of duty when two Royal
Navy Sea King helicopters collided over the northern Arabian Gulf at around
1.30am in Bagdad Iraq.Some time ago a lot of money in various currencies were
discovered in some barrels during his service in Bagdad in Iraq during a
rescue operation, he happens to be one of the soldiers that lead that
operation that day, and as the first person to discover the money.So he kept
Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros( 12,500 Million) out of the money
for himself before informing the rest of the troop.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

leaving no WILL or AUTHORIZATION for Re-transfer of his investment and its
proceeds to the INHERITOR. I have personally carried out an investigation on
the subject matter that took me 12 months to finalize and was made to
understand that the family or relatives of the investor knows nothing about
his investment with HSBC and none have any records of all his deposits with
us, thereby creating an avenue for claiming of the said funds with its accrued
interest on presentation of a trustworthy person that can stand as the
INHERITOR to the deceased.If you are interested I can present you as the
INHERITOR with proper documentation that will qualify you to have the funds
claimed and on doing this, our establishment will not question the release of
the funds to you as I will make sure that we comply with the banking laws and
ethics of claiming the investment in our establishment.

Our sharing ratio will be equal and we will set aside 1% as
contingency/miscellaneous.Please contact me for more details if interested and
reply on my personal email account.(raubenette@rocketmail.com)

Looking forward to hearing from you shortly.

Rau Benette

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