419 scam: "Sen Hope Uzodinma"<hopeuzodinma@yahoo.com> Kindly Respond To Clarify this Issue

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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:
- "million united states dollars" (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)
- "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
- "hopeuzodinma@e-mail.ua" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "Sen Hope Uzodinma" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hopeuzodinma@e-mail.ua>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 10:51:32 +0100
Subject: Kindly Respond To Clarify this Issue

Attn: The Funds Beneficiary

Compliments of the day, I hope all is well with you today, I write to inform you that you are among the people selected for our debt payment in this second quarter debt payment scheme for this year 2013. We allocated the sum of Fifteen Million United States Dollars ($15M) only to you, for this second quarter payment scheme. Please bear with us on this as we will pay you the balance in our subsequent payment quarters for this year 2013. After we reconcile our accounts properly with other concerned offices .

We are having some conflict in your debt payment in particular, as three (3) people came to our office this week with different identities claiming to be you. And instructing us to transfer the allocated sum of $15m into their nominated bank accounts. As we are about to resolve the present conflict , another two young men came to our office the next day claiming to be your representatives with power of attorney to act on your behalf. They also presented some bank accounts where the funds will be transferred into . This incident happened few days after we published the names of those that we selected to pay their debts this year 2013, which your name was among listed beneficiarires.

We are very surprised at this ugly development, and want you to confirm to US if you are among those people that came to our office for your payment. Or if you sent any representative to our office in this matter. I decided to send this important message to you by email because this email is the only email I saw in your debt payment files, and I believe that is the authentic email to reach you directly.

You should respond to this message immediately and clear this conflict now, as we cannot solve this problem without your advice.

I await your prompt response .

Best Regards

Senator Hope Uzodinma
Chairman senate committee on foreign debt payment.
E-mail: hopeuzodinma@e-mail.ua

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