419 scam: "DATO HUSSIN" <drshoffitrechard@gmail.com> Compliment of the season

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "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)
- "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- hdrdato@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DATO HUSSIN" <drshoffitrechard@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hdrdato@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 19:39:17 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Compliment of the season

Dear Friend,

Compliment of the season

I am Dr Dato Hussin a senior staff in file keeping section of the foreign
remittance department of Bank Central Asia (BCA)Internatonal Bank Jakarta
Indonesia. I got your email id in the net during a desperate search for a
reliable partner to champion this transaction. In my department I
discovered an abandoned sum of $5.5 M US dollars (Five Million Five
Hundred Thousand US Dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer Mr. Andreas Schranner who died along with his entire
family in a plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting the next
of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learned that
all his supposed next of kin died alongside with him at the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery
that i decided to contact you and release the money to you as the next of
kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement
since nobody is coming for it and i don't want this money to go into the
bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remains
Unclaimed after nine years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and an Indonesian cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I will give
you 30% of this money as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a
foreign account, 10 % will be assumed for expenses incurred during the
business and 60 % would be for me. There after I and my family will visit
your country.

Please if you are interested kindly respond by sending me your
address,full names, and telephone numbers including your
usiness/occupation to my privte email address hdrdato@yahoo.com to enable
me ascertain your capability of handling this business. Trusting to hear
from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,
Dr Dato Hussin
private email address hdrdato@yahoo.com

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