419 scam: David Morgan <morganinvestments01@gmail.com> URGENT REPLY

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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:
- "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- ",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)
- "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "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 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.
- morganreal_10@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: David Morgan <morganinvestments01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: morganreal_10@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:48:46 -0700
Subject: URGENT REPLY

Hello,
My name is David Morgan a branch manager of a prime bank in London.I
know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never met
before. I Hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and
confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of
our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the
sum of â‚¤ 38,000,000.00 ( â‚¤ 38, million GBP ) to your bank account.

The fund has been dormant (in-active) for 14 years in our Financial
Institution here in London without any body coming for it. I want to
release the fund to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer
(the owner of the account) who died along with his supposed next of
kin in air crash since 31st July 2000. The Bank will release the fund
to you as the nearest person to the deceased customer. For more
information about the crash you can visit this site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin
of these funds from the deceased and after due legal processes have
been followed the fund will be released to your account without delay
and we will use it for investment and to assist the less privileged in
the Society because if we leave the fund with the government it will
be fortified for nothing and will be used to suppress the poor masses
in the society.This transaction is totally free of risk and the fund
is clean money from genuine source.

Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and
delete it if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I
will send you more details regarding this transaction. Finally, you
will have 50% of the above mentioned amount and 50% for me hence it's
two person's business.

I need to hear from you urgently so that I will send you more
information regarding this transaction. I look forward to hear from
you as soon as possible if you are interest.
Contact me with this email address: morganreal_10@hotmail.com

Regards,
David Morgan

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