419 scam: "DFID"<info@dfid.gov.uk> REQUESTING YOUR ATTENTION!

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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.
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.
- andsn_mogn@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DFID" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <andsn-mogn@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 19:54:21 +0800
Subject: REQUESTING YOUR ATTENTION!

Good Day Esteemed Beneficiary,

We are obliged to inform you that you attention is needed in a very sensitive case which has been investigated upon.

First of all we deemed it most crucial in announcing the reimbursement of international overdue payments which includes contracts and lotto funds in our government treasury, which has not yet been disbursed to their rightful beneficiaries.

In accordance with regulations of the International Trade and Contract Act each year, all countries under the United Nations Organisation are reviewed, on the level of industrial and intellectual property rights protection in all member nations.

With this accountability and transparency project in mind, it has come to our notice from the UN , in investigating on your case in regards to an overdue payment fund of yours amounting to Nine hundred and Seventy Fifty thousand Pounds (975,000 GBP) which your representative claims, informing us you instructed him as a next of kin to claim your fund on your behalf.

Please clarify us on this matter for the last time if you really instructed Eng. Shen Park from Malaysia as your representative, to claim this said fund on your behalf as we have been given the mandate to verify and make sure disbursed funds don’t get into the hands of wrong people.

Do contact our International Regulations Personnel Aderson Morgan on andsn_mogn@hotmail.co.uk immediately if you did not send anyone on your behalf, to hint you on any further directives and information in respect to this matter.

Regards,
FROM THE DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT,
UK AID IN CONJUCTION WITH THE UN.

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