419 scam: " Covel"<christ197420@yahoo.com> Good news

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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 next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: " Covel" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <christ197430@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:10:43 +0400
Subject: Good news

Hello sir,

Surprise to read from me being a stranger and no formal business with you in the past, I am compelled to contact you based on my urgent need for an external partner to execute a deal I have setup in my office. I am am the acting director with the Malaysia Wealth Insurance Company, we serve as insurance company where individuals and companies can deposit treasures or cash for safe keeping.

I am making this contact to you for actualization and utilization of unclaimed deposit of one of our late client. I will like to request for the liquidation of the platform account and transfer of the surrender value to an account which I shall nominate as to belong to the legal heirs to owner of liquidated amount and portray you as next of kin to my client who has INVESTED that amount for a portfolio management and margin trading through the Malaysia wealth Insurance management.

Prior to this, the total surrender value and profit, less commission will be USD 9,450,000 and this amount will be credited to your new non resident business account NRBA upon liquidation of the above surrender value.

Therefore, if you can accept that we execute this deal together confidentially while you are portrayed as legal heirs of the platform account, we shall have the privilege to disburse the funds on a 60-40 sharing ratio. On your acceptance to handle this with me which will not take more than 7 business days to be liquidated and surrender value credited into the NRB account, I will request that you respond indicating your interest to execute this deal with me.

Regards,
Mr. Christ Covel
Head / Wealth Management Services
Malaysia Wealth Insurance Company.

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