419 scam: "Mr Gupta"<reportergupta@hotmail.com> Treat As 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:

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:
- "million american 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)
- "million 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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- reportergupta@rediffmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Gupta" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <unreporter@rediffmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 07:21:46 +0200
Subject: Treat As Urgent

From: Mr N.Gupta.

58 Whitehall Court, London,

My name is Mr. N. Gupta, UN humanitarian War crime abuse reporter in United Kingdom.

On behalf of my partner, I seek for your utmost confident to secure and accommodate Seven Million American Dollars [ $ 7 Million Dollars Only]. We solemnly agreed to

offer you 25% of the entire sum as gratification. The money in question is sourced to us by a particular head of state as a gesture to prevent us from

revealing a war crime / genocide proves we had against him.

But in line with the moral principal of our services, we are not required to accept gift of any kind nor own more than 10,000 USD in our respective bank

account, hence our plea to be represented by you to accommodate the funds for us.

We count on your ability to accommodate the funds for us until we are able to process our resignation successfully in the near future.

If you are interested to help us please provide me with the following in return email: reportergupta@rediffmail.com

1) Your Full Name .

2) Your Residential or Company Address.

3) Your Private Mobile,Telphone and Fax numbers where you can be reached at all time.

As soon as I hear from you, further details regarding the transaction will be unveiled to you.

Regards.

Mr. N.Gupta

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