419 scam: Helen Rock <noreply@worldsoft-wbs.com> Good Day Dear Respectful One,

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Helen Rock <noreply@worldsoft-wbs.com>
Reply-To: Helen Rock <helerockf@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:39:53 +0000
Subject: Good Day Dear Respectful One,

Good Day Dear Respectful One,

My name is Helen Rock 19 years old from France and my younger brother Stanley is 16 years old, Please go through below our mail and see if you can Assist for Our mutual benefit, our late Father was a business contractor who specialized in Mineral Resources and Gold, he died as a result of CORONAVIRUS that led him to undesirable death one week after his visit to China's mines to negotiate on a Gold business,

Recently, his bank management wrote me that my late father has a deposit in their bank custody, the sum of ( £36.4 Million Euro) but after my visit to that bank to have access with the money the bank management refuse that we are too tender i and my brother, that we should look for a foreign Beneficiary of our choice since no name was mentioned to them by my late father as a beneficiary during the time of the deposit,

So please we solicit for your assistance to stand as our foreign Beneficiary to enable the bank release the fund to you and we will compensate you with 10% of the total money for you all your assistant, I look forward to hear from you for more details if you are willing.

Best Regards.
Helen/Stanley

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