419 scam: "(Financial Consultant, London UK)."<info@smokefreejo.com> best Regards £1,934.10

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "(Financial Consultant, London UK)." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <stheeman9@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:28:17 -0400
Subject: best Regards £1,934.10

Good day,

I am Robert Stheeman, former secret Financial Adviser and Overseas Funds
Disbursement Agent to Mr. Naguib Sawiris, and Hosni Mubarak; Egypt's richest man
and former president respectively.

Mr. Sawiris secretly assigned me to facilitate movement overseas a total sum of
USD2.4Billion of President Mubarak?s wealth few days into the 2011 Arab
Spring/Revolution, sensing the eventually toppling of the Mubarak's government
and his current state. You can confirm this on the websites below:

http://www.allvoices.com/ contributed-news/8038551-19- secret-jets-arrive-dubai-from- cairo-carrying-wealthy- families

http://www.latimes.com/news/ nationworld/world/middleeast/ la-fg-egypt-violence-20110204, 0,4584054.story

I successfully secured bulk of the USD2.4Billion in Financial Instruments in
Switzerland, UK, Indonesia, Dubai, and the New York and Hong Kong Stock
Exchanges on proxy basis to disguise the real ownership. The total sum of
USD40.5Million Interest/Dividend from the short term Indonesian/UK Investments
has matured for immediate payment to my nominated Proxy Beneficiary. Thus I am
proposing to present you as the nominated proxy beneficiary and my secret
partner to receive this initial USD40.5Million; with 30% offer for your role.

As you can see this is a 100% legitimate and risk free deal. Please reply with
your telephone number for further details. I looks forward to your reply to
brief you further.

Regards,

Robert Stheeman
(Financial Consultant, London UK)

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