419 scam: "James H. Wyche"<chartering@hansengroup.com.tw> Verify The Quantity & Price

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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:
- "% commission" (Beware of any scheme that involves depositing checks or money orders or receiving wire transfers in your bank account and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere, for a percentage of 5-15% of the total. Such offers are *always* fraudulent and you will be liable for the entire amount when the checks, money orders or wire transfers turn out to be fraudulent. Any money already forwarded comes out of *your* pocket then. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +2348163112240

Fraud email example:

From: "James H. Wyche" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <james45howard@gmx.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 07:21:40 -0800
Subject: Verify The Quantity & Price

Greetings,

I am delighted to introduce to you my company HKMLE LLC. We manufacturer of computer accessories, focal glasses/lens, microchips and advance hospital equipment (AHE).Presently, my company wishes to come down to Africa to procure a raw material and if possible site our annex office/industry in Nigeria to the nearness of raw materials as we were made to understand from the Chamber of Trade and Industry in London that Africa is rich with mineral resources.

Our humble purpose of contacting you is to avoid my company fall into awful hands of Africans, as we haven’t been to Africa before and also to frontier my company fairly prior to my company’s proposed project in Africa where you shall aid the process of incorporation and construction based on your good recommendation for a personal and bilateral relationship between you and my company.

We request you to avail our company the gesture of contacting this company in Nigeria, to enquire the availability and fair prices of their raw material on our behalf as the company was recommended from the Economic desk of the A High Commission in London as a local miner, who deals on this mineral in industrial quantity as advertised by the company- Reference: Page 9, of International Local Miners Brochure Japan 2005.

Solid Harvest Mining Company
Nigeria West Africa
Local Miner - Engr. Yohana Pam
TEL: +2348163112240

Please take note of our specification and price data

Raw Materials Required: Crude Zircon Solid Mineral
Description -Pure White In Color
Size - Like Sugar Cube
Intl Standard Scale - 1unit = 4 Pieces
Intl Price Per Unit - Us$5,500
Quantity Required - 1000 Unit X Us$5,500

Please do contact Engr. Yohana Pam on the above telephone number for enquiry on our behalf, perhaps you may not disclose to the company that foreigners are coming for procurement. otherwise they may reduce the ISS (International Standard Scale i.e. 4pieces = 1unit) and possibly increase their prices than International Standard Price (ISP).

Best regards.

Prof James Howard
Director Finance and Supply
+16504342127

Note:

The directors have agreed unanimously that if we can get a fair arrangement through you, we would legally endorse to pay you 30% commission of the total purchase and you should be informed of the continuity of this transaction because well be buying the product six-month intervals of five good years.

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