419 scam: Richard Bright <richardbright9816@yahoo.com> LETTER FROM RICHARD BRIGHT/URGENT

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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: Richard Bright <richardbright9816@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: richardbright9810@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 06:50:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: LETTER FROM RICHARD BRIGHT/URGENT

Greetings,

I am sorry for using this medium of communication in contacting you, but be informed that it is based on the urgent nature of this deal that I am about to present to you now for your consideration.

First, it will be my great pleasure to introduce myself to you. I am Mr. Richard Bright, native of United Kingdom and the executive fund Manager with SFS Finance. I handle all our Investors Capital Project Funds. I was able to extract 1.2% investors Excess Return Capital Funds to our Safeway Trust Funds Account whereby I can easily present anyone of my choice to claim the funds. On this note, the total sum of GBP£5.745Million has been diverted representing the 1.2% Excess Return Capital Funds from the Investors Capital Project Funds for 2005/2006. I need a reliable and trustworthy person that can work this deal out with me so that we can claim the funds as mentioned above.

There is no risk attached and the funds in question can never be detected or traced. Our sharing ratio is 60% for me :30% for you and 10% for charity works. If you are interested respond back for more details.Please if you are not interested don't use this form to betray me.

Sincerely,
Richard Bright

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