419 scam: "David Bruss Williams" <danielslewis346@gmail.com> Hello Good Day,

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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:
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "David Bruss Williams" <danielslewis346@gmail.com>
Reply-To: agentbruswilliam@anpa.name
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 17:20:01 +0900
Subject: Hello Good Day,

Sir/Madam
My name is David Bruss Williams, I’m a certified public accountant
(auditor) attached with the World bank auditors in London United Kingdom
under the supervision of the Country auditor (EDS03).
I decided to contact you privately after a meticulous auditing of
financial books in the United Kingdom of fund entries carried out within
the last three years. I discovered a chunk of money valued
USD$68,700,000.00 (Sixty Eight Million Seven hundred thousand US dollars
only) in which your name and address are ascribed as the assigned
beneficiary?
The fund is currently is floating in suspense and waiting to be wired to
designated beneficiary, unfortunately there’s no entity or person(s) that
has come up for the claim.
Based on this, I am contacting the addressee to know if you are aware of
the fund and its status.
Please, if I’ve reached the correct beneficiary, I’ll appreciates it if
you could get in touch with me to let me see what is the problem and
probably offer some assistance to facilitate the release of the fund and
wire same to your preferred bank coordinates.
Looking forward to hearing from you upon receipt of my message through
this my private email(agentbruswilliam@anpa.name).
Kind regards,
David Bruss William

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