419 scam: "PATRICK DANIELS"<patrick@info.com> TRUTH OF THE MATTER.

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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: "PATRICK DANIELS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <patrdnls9@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:02:16 +0100
Subject: TRUTH OF THE MATTER.

Hello Beneficiary,

I write to confess what you are presently going through with my Boss. I was a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Local and Foreign Debt attached

to the POST Bank here in UK. I am ready to resigned my official duty when I discovered the activities of my colleagues during a private investigation I carried out. I

suspected some kind of foul play in their act which they would never inform me because they know I would never be a party to such as a Christian.

I discovered that my Boss was conniving with some top officials of the POST BANK Headquarters to divert funds approved to settle International contractors and

Inheritance. The World Bank has already given approval for the payment of your fund while they are deliberately delaying your payment. They continue to issue one fee

or the other from different quarters to you. I can assure you this will keep happening if you do not do away with those officers.

Well I just hope you believe me, because if you don't, your fund is gone. Your fund is currently authorized to be paid to you from a financial consultant, approved by

the World Bank with a Key Tested Reference/CLAIMS CODE Number, which was supposed to have been issued to you, but they have decided to divert your attention by telling

you that they have something to do with one committee or the other especially here in UK and making you believe that the fund will be transferred into your account -

FALSE!

The reason why I am giving you this information is because of the fact that I was aware of it and my doctrine does not permit me to withhold such information. The

only help you can get from me now, is the actual link to your payment, please do not give this information to my boss as it may lead to them influencing a total

blockage to your payment, so you have to be very careful with this information.

Upon your response to this message i will let you know what needs to be done.

Yours Faithfully,
Patrick Daniels.

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