419 scam: "Natwest Bank London" <breahn.riley@live.com> Beneficiary Payment Notification( Reply Immediately)

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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:
- "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "hundred thousand great british pounds" (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)
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.
- breahn.riley001@rocketmail.com (Rocketmail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Natwest Bank London" <breahn.riley@live.com>
Reply-To: breahn.riley001@rocketmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:56:31 +1100
Subject: Beneficiary Payment Notification( Reply Immediately)

Dear Sir,

I am Mr. Breahn Riley from Harlesden, North West London, here in England.
I work with Natwest Bank London.With due respect and regard, I am writing
you from my office for a business that will be of immense benefit to both
of us.

In my department, being the Private Banking Manager (Greater London
Regional Office), I discovered an abandoned sum of £40,500,000 GBP (Fourty
million five hundred thousand Great British Pounds Sterling) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Dr. Erin Jacobson who
died with his entire family in Montana plane crash on March 23, 2009, on
their way to a group sky vacation.

I don't want the money to go into our bank treasury as an abandoned fund.
So this is the reason why I contacted you so that the bank can release /
transfer the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer, I
will provide all documents to cover you in this, I will give you full
details on how the business will be executed and also note that you will
have 45% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to handle this business
with me and 55% will be for me.

I await your urgent communication via my private and confidential email
breahn.riley001@rocketmail.com

Best Regards,
Breahn Riley

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