419 scam: "Mr. Stephen Wood"<info@haus-der-reisen.de> Re: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

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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:
- ",500,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
- "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- stephenwood7961@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Stephen Wood" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <stephenwood796@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 00:23:41 -0800
Subject: Re: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Hello,

I am Mr. Stephen Wood the Bank Manager of Citibank #3 Hanover Square,
London. I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On June 6, 2001, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the BRITISH PETROLUEM CORPORATION Mr. Abdullah Ahmed.

Made a numbered time (Fixed deposit), valued at US$22,500,000.00 (Twenty Two Million Five hundred Thousand Dollars only) in my branch.
Upon maturity in 2006, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.

After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, He British Petroleum Corporation that

Mr. Abdullah Ahmed died as a result of torture in the hand of Sadam Hussein during one of his trips to his country Iraq.

On urtherinvestigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless.

I therefore made furt her investigation and discovered that Mr.Abdullah Ahmed. Did not declare any next of kin or relation in all his official documents, include in his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.

This sum of US$22,500,000.00 have been floating as unclaimed since 2006, in my bank as all efforts to get his relatives have hit the stones.
According to the British law at the expiration of 8 (eight) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the British

Government if nobody applies to claim the fund and the eight years is getting closer
Consequently, my proposal is that I want to seek your consent as aforeigner to stand in as the owner of the money as the next of kin to the deceased so that the bank will transfer the money to your designated account.

All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out. I have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I are assn ring you that the business is risk free involvement. Your Share stays while the rest be for me and for investment purpose as I will leave London at the end of the transaction.

The sharing of the funds will be based According to agreement between {both of us} that is, you and I. As soon as I receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message in acceptances of our mutual business proposal,I will furnish you with the necessary
modalities and disbursement ratio to suit both parties without any conflict. If this proposal is
acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you.

REPLY ON THIS EMAIL: stephenwood7961@gmail.com
Kind regards

Mr. Stephen Wood.

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