419 scam: "Wilfrid Azor"<wilfrid@mail.com> Reply Immediately as soon as you finish reading

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million pounds" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Wilfrid Azor"<wilfrid@mail.com>
Reply-To: <mailwilfridazor@i12.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:20:27 +0200
Subject: Reply Immediately as soon as you finish reading

Good day.

My email may sound astonishing to you but please, this is for real.
During my investigation and auditing we discovered unclaimed fund from different banks and security companies, worth over 400 Million Pounds lying unclaimed with Banks in London.

View the website for more information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5171222.stm
There is this floating fund which is to the tune of Fourteen Million Seven Hundred Thousand Pounds (£14,700,000.00 Pounds) which has been floating in this A/C n?5005874SB1000 with Chipps Investment National Bank Group London, since 2005, after the death of the true owner of the funds, who bears the same last name with you.

During the bank private search for the relative recently, your name and email contact was among the findings that match. I found out that nobody has ever come on behalf of the late deceased as his next of kin to claim the funds and I have been monitoring this account since I discovered this information.

If you are reliable to execute this transaction with me, then I will instruct you on how to claim as the next of kin to the deceased, so that the funds could be transferred to your overseas A/C, if only you will co-operate with me and not betray me at the end of this transaction.

After the transaction is being successful, I will apply for a visa to your country to collect my own share which is 50% for me and 50% for you. If you are interested in this transaction, please reply me urgently.

I await your soonest response to this matter.
Wilfrid Azor.

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