419 scam: CH GOMEZ <chgomez3@hotmail.com> KIND REGARDS

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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:
- "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)
- "@lawyer.com" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
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.
- +34672536304 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
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.
- hugo.abogado@lawyer.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: CH GOMEZ <chgomez3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <hugo.abogado@lawyer.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:31:38 +0000
Subject: KIND REGARDS

Castellon de la
Plana 20,

28006,
Madrid – Spain.

Te: +34
672 536 30442

Fax: +34917 692
83767

Email:
hugo.abogado@lawyer.com

REF:
EUR/OBZ/AAS307-14

August
20TH, 2014.

Business
Proposal

Firstly, I must
solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as
being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of
this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring
you that all will be well at the end of the day. Let me start by first
introducing myself properly to you. It may surprise you receiving this letter
from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us my name is
Dr/Barrister Carlos Hugo Gomez, (Spanish Lawyer and Doctor in Law) a personal
Attorney to Late Mr. Michael, an expatriate engineer who has worked with the
Mining and Smelting Company (Asturiana de Zinc S.A. Spain).

My purpose of
contacting you is for you to help secure a cash deposit left behind by my late
client, to avoid it being confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank
where this cash deposit valued €12, 700,000.00 (Twelve Million Seven Hundred
Thousand Euros Only) this money was deposited by my late client before he
passed away, he died by stoke and cancer on the 16th April 2003, he left the
fund with no Will and up till today his relatives remained unknown.

All relevant
documents and information as regards to the cash deposit is in my possession as
we speak therefore I guarantee the success of this transaction in all legal
definitions. As his attorney I have contacted the bank for the claim of the
fund and the Bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin or the
account will be declared unserviceable and the fund will be retired by the
state (Ayuntamiento de Madrid). This type of incident is not new, there are
many people who try to evade taxes in their country of origin by depositing
their money in a foreign secret accounts but I never knew my late client had
one until his accidental death and the eventual disclosure from my contact in
the bank. Since this account is secret and there is no one left to claim the
fund I am contacting you. I am actually asking for your consent to present you
to the Bank as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late client’s fund, since you
have the same last name, so that the fund will be released to you as his next
of kin.

Upon the
completion of the transaction I wish to point out that I want 20% of this money
to be shared among the charity Organizations, while the remaining will be
shared equally between us. Please be assured that this transaction is entirely
risk free as I guarantee the legality and success of this transaction. For
more information please contact me on telephone +34 672 536 30442, fax +34917
692 83767 or E-mail: hugo.abogado@lawyer.com

If this business
proposal offends your moral ethics, do accept my sincere apology but if on the
contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me, please kindly contact me with
your interest to enable me start the process of claim immediately.

Awaiting for
your immediate response.

Best Regards,

Dr/Barr. C H.
Gomez.

Attorney at Law

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