419 scam: Tom Peters <emscourierservicesuk1978@gmail.com> Greetings,

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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: Tom Peters <emscourierservicesuk1978@gmail.com>
Reply-To: director_ofcrudennpc@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:20:38 -0400
Subject: Greetings,

Greetings,

I contacted you because you have same name identity with our late client and
can perfectly fit in as next of kin, We can work together to claim this fund.
Please listen, this is real and goes on in Banks all over the world without
people knowing. Let us utilize this opportunity because it does not
come always.

A lot of customers open private accounts with different Banks without the
knowledge of their families and when they die, such monies will be lost to the
Bank unless someone comes to claim it. This is how a lot of Bank
Directors make
so much money silently.

If you are not interested, please ignore this mail and do not tell anybody for
security of my position in our bank, with my position in the office I don?t
want anything that will jeopardize my job, so I advice that we should maintain
secrecy and confidential. I will write you more info in my next mail
if you are
interested.

Thanks,

Tom Peters

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