419 scam: "Inspr Dean Price"<politicalanimals@psnw.com> ATTENTION TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

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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: "Inspr Dean Price" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <insprdeanprice@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 23:03:46 -0400
Subject: ATTENTION TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

METROPOLITAN POLICE

                                  NEW SCOTLAND YARD, BROADWAY, LONDON

                                      SW1H OBG, UNITED KINGDOM

                                          el- 44-7087621838.

ATTENTION TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

    I write in respect of an attempt by two notorious and wanted criminals Mrs.Rosa papa dakis, aka Elizabeth P. Graham(Swiss) and Mr.Miko brian ,aka (James Robin ) who have attempted to change your bank account information by requesting Mr.Jamiesun of British credit union bank, united kingdom to change your bankaccount information and paid the total sum of $10.5million (Ten million Five hundred unitedstates dollars) to this bank account number; Union bank of swissa land( U B S) 10 Bohnof strasser Zurich (Swissair-land)

A/c 313 000 2941

Did you at anytime authorized Mr.James Robin to change your bank account information? Did you authorized the British credit union (London) to pay Mr.James Robin.

Best Regard,

Inspr Dean Price

I.d verification number 304-9778

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