419 scam: "Tahira Aflaq"<int522810@gmail.com> Do you have broad investment knowledge

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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:
- "the consignment" (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)
- "consignment " (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)
- "with absolute secrecy" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- tahiraaflaq25@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Tahira Aflaq" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <tahiraaflaq25@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 03:00:07 -0800
Subject: Do you have broad investment knowledge

Greetings to you Dear,

I apologize if the content of this letter are contrary to your moral
ethics but please treat with absolute secrecy and personal. My name is
Tahira Aflaq from Damascus, Syria. I got your contact online, prayed
over it and i decided to contact you, I am 39yrs old wife of late
Colonel Abdul Aflaq who died on April 4th 2017 in the Syrian war.

In the course of my search for my late husbands personal effects and
valuable, i discovered that my late husband deposited a consignment
comprising of USD38 Million at a vault of a security finance company
in Europe which i suspect that my late husband recovered from Syrian
Shell Petroleum Development during active service. I have communicated
with the security finance company in Europe and i told them that my
late husband investment partner will come or send available documents
to their office for the claims, and they accepted to release the
consignment.

I need a trusted foreign partner with broad investment knowledge to
receive the fund and help me invest. I do not operate any foreign bank
account outside Syria and i cannot travel outside Syria because of
restrictions of war hence i solicit your sincere/genuine assistance
without taking undue advantage of me. Please can you?

On my next email i will explain to you in full detail about this
investment proposal. You
may as well tell me little more about yourself.

Note: Please, i am a widow and a woman in need, i need a transparent
person that will consider my situation and help me invest/manage the
funds and possibly bring me and my only daughter out from Syria.

Please get back to me through my secure email address :
tahiraaflaq25@gmail.com ,if you are interested

Thanks for your time.

Regards
Tahira Aflaq

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