419 scam: "Abbel Malik"<postmaster@ecotermo.ru> WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.

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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:
- ",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)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- malik_abbel@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Abbel Malik" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <malik_abbel@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 04:42:36 -0700
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.

Attention:,
It is my pleasure to contact you today. My name is Abbel Malik I am a secret representative of late Mr. Saif al-

Arab Gadhafi son of Libyan leader (Moammar Gadhafi). I am his personal Legal aid on many dealings with all his

international associate to protect my clients interest with the opposite parties, my late client had so many Crude

Oil shipments from Libya to Accra Ghana to one of his associates there for selling.
.
Furthermore, After the shipments were offloaded a deal was struck and my client realized the sum of US

$350,000,000.00 Dollars cash for the supply and the funds are safely in the custody of an international

organization In which Saif Gadhafi is also a member. This happened recently before the untimely uprising in Libya,

my client died in one of the NATO Air strikes in Libya and it was so unfortunate but I pray that his soul rest in

peace while we alive live on.

I want to present you to the organization as the beneficiary and partner to Saif al-Arab Gadhafi to stand and make

the claim of my late client’s fund to enable them process and release the funds to you as an allied to Saif. We

shall share in the ratio of 30/70 on confirmation of the funds in your custody.

I wait to hear from you.
malik_abbel@yahoo.com
+233 243 050834

Regard,

Abbel malik.

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