419 scam: "Mr David Hess" <davidhess1010@gmail.com> I wait for your response.1

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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:
- "transferred into your bank account" (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)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "top secret" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr David Hess" <davidhess1010@gmail.com>
Reply-To: haque1010@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 16:24:16 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: I wait for your response.1

Attn.Sir

It is my pleasure to contact you as to discuss this transaction with
you. I will want to have your trust and to go into partnership
transaction with you which must be build on confidentiality between
us.

My name are Mr David Hess, there is one of our customers that made fix
deposit for 7 fiscal years upon maturity; I sent a routine
notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After some
months, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
business partner he passed away after brief illness in his country. I
tried everything humanly possible to locate his relatives in GERMANY
failed. The deposit is still intact.

If this fund (Twenty Five Millions us dollars,25,000,000.00$) still
left dormant in the next couple of months the fund will be
confiscated into the government treasury as unclaimed fund. It is for
these reason's that I have seek for your urgent and sincere help to
get this fund transferred into your bank account, a bank account in
any part of the world can facilitate the transfer. All that is
required of you is to contact my bank with the information's
that I will send to you as the next of kin or business associate of
the depositor with this, the fund will be paid into any bank account
that you will provide.

To be honest with you, this transaction I have opened-up to you is
totally genuine and 100% risk-free. But the secret must remain
between me and you, I am assuring you because I have been working with
this bank for many years, hence I know all its secrets very well and
I have carefully mapped-out my perfect strategies to carry out this
transaction successfully.

The depositor was my very close friend and I was his personal
financial adviser before his death, that being the main reason why I
alone working in the bank here, know much about the existence of this
fund and the secrets and the depositor. We shall also use part of the
fund to help the orphanage, people in the street and the less
privilege children in the world. Please keep this proposal as a top
secret between both of us, and delete it in your email box, if you
are not interested. But if you are interested get back to immediately.

I wait for your response.
Mr David Hess.

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