419 scam: "Mr. Bordin Gillard" <mrbordin@att.co.th> A Painful Story!

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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:
- "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Bordin Gillard" <mrbordin@att.co.th>
Reply-To: "Mr. Bordin Gillard" <mrbordingillard@yahoo.co.th>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:31:04 -0800
Subject: A Painful Story!

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mr Bordin Gillard, the family attorney of the late client Mr Panit Chartchai, I'm the closest friends of my late client and he didn’t have any kids. It was very painful to me when I heard that he was poisoned, and I was very surprise who could do that but under investigation I found out that his uncle poisoned him because of his properties. Mr Panit is a very wealthy man and he helped lot of poor people here in Thailand. Even some peoples got rich through him and his very nice person. Mr Panit discusses his properties to me before him dead, but he didn’t put any name on his properties. He told me that one of his estates will be inherit to his uncle but he didn’t know what my late client planned for him before he killed him. My late client has a sum of (USD$10, 600, 0000) (Ten-Million and Six Hundred Thousands United State Dollars) and many properties. I have all the documents with me to back up these funds and put you as the next of kin to Mr Panit. I don’t have the right to cl
aim his properties because we like ourselves very much and treated me like his own family. I want the funds to be in your possession and I don’t want any of his family to take over the properties because they are very wicked soul. Please I want you to get back to me asap so that we can start the processing of the funds to be in your possession. I will be waiting to hear from you soonest.

Warm Regards,
Mr Bordin Gillard.

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