419 scam: "Shri Deepak Singhal"<fileo826@yahoo.com> ATTENTION BENEFICIARY

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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:
- "foreign payment department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
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.
- remittancedpt_rbi@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Shri Deepak Singhal" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <remittancedpt_rbi@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:48:07 +0530
Subject: ATTENTION BENEFICIARY

ATTENTION BENEFICIARY,

This personal letter will finally come as a surprise to you, I am instructed to inform you of this outstanding payment file I have on my desk. this is a payment of US$5.5Million (Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) of your contract sum with the Republic of India for transfer to the below account:

ACCT NAME: MRS. CHERIE VANSICKLE,
BANK/NAME: GREEATER IOWA CREDIT UNION
BANK ADDRESS: LEDD E, 30TH DES MOINES, IOWA 50317 USA,
ACCOUNT/NUMBER: 000369505.
ROUTING/273972583,

This payment was stopped because several applications has been forwarded with different account information’s with several affidavits of claim requesting for this transfer of which am sure you are not aware of this development. these are reasons why this payment has not been released up till now even after you have spent so much time and money. Moreover, Investigations carried out by my office shows that these applications are not genuine and their intentions is to divert this payment to a wrong beneficiary. Are you aware of this? your email address is boldly written on your file, hence I am using it to contact you.

In view to this development, the bank directors have therefore approved this payment to be delivered to you by bank to bank online transaction, this is a means by which banks transfer international monetary transactions and also in government circles. I have been advised to let you know about this after our board meeting that during the cause of our investigation, we discovered that you were among the beneficiaries of contract payments that was directed to the wrong hands and were dupe in one way or the other.

Finally, For security reasons, You are kindly hereby requested to confirm this email which we use in contacting you and respond to this message immediately. For further information CONTACT US ON THIS EMAIL:remittancedpt_rbi@hotmail.com and fill below form with your valid contact information.

Full Name..............
Nationality..............
Marital Status..........
Age..........................
Sex...........................
Occupation.................
Tel/Mobile Contact...........................

Yours Faithfully,
Shri Deepak Singhal
Regional Director Foreign Payment Department,
Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

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