419 scam: XIO. D <martidor25@gmail.com> [Private] 27 March 2014

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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: XIO. D <martidor25@gmail.com>
Reply-To: x.dante@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:49:45 +0100
Subject: [Private] 27 March 2014

From: DANTE Annabella Xio (Mss)
London UK

I sincerely apologize for intruding into your privacy unannounced.
My name is Annabella Xio DANTE, UN Staff working at the UN Independent Station (Office Human Right Commission Satellite Station) United Kingdom. I got your contact from UK archives and global data centre.

On behalf of my partner, I seek your assistance to accommodate and invest for us the sum of 18.6MD. The money as mentioned is a reward to us by a High Profile Government Official as a gesture for appreciation of a good work rendered to their country, but In line with the moral principal of our services, we are not required to accept gift of any kind nor own more than 10,000 USD in our respective bank account, Thus our plea to be represented by a trust worthy person to most importantly secure this money in trust and invest the sum for us.

We count on your ability to accommodate and invest the funds for us until we are able to process our resignation to live outside the ethics of United Nations successfully.

If you are interested please provide me with the following in return email,If not, I beg of you to delete this email permanently and never bother to contact me back:

YOUR NAME IN FULL
YOUR OFFICE OR RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
TEL AND FAX NUMBER

As soon as I hear from you, further details regarding the transaction will be unveiled to you.

I look forward for your urgent response.

N.B It is notified to us by my Friend/Financial expert about false pretenses of our similar proposal circulating the internet for some sort of selfish interest, so on this note, we kindly disassociate our selves from those.

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