419 scam: Barr David Goodwin <john.mann14@yahoo.pt> Season Greetings

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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:
- ",500,000" (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)
- "% will be for you" (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)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Barr David Goodwin <john.mann14@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Barr David Goodwin <david1goodwin@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:51:47 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Season Greetings

Â Sir/Ma,

I am contacting you for a transaction involving Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars only($5,500,000) My late client was going through a horrendous divorce and was on the verge of losing most of his estate to his vicious and diabolical wife. As a result of this alarming predicament,He came to me with a very brilliant idea of putting the $5.5M to a fixed deposit account in one of the bank under an alias which only the two of us knew before his death.

I would like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to our client so that you will be able to receive his funds,I will have 65%,30% will be for you and 5% will be map aside to cover all expenses in the process of completing this transaction.Provide me with your FULL NAME, ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER to enable so that I will summit a letter of introduction in your name as the next of kin beneficiary to this claim and start processing all paperwork in your name for this claim.

I assure you that this transaction is worth taking and highly profitable.It's 100% risk free.

I awaits your urgent response.

Yours Faithfully,
Barr David Goodwin

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