419 scam: "\"From: \"Mrs.P\"\""<jiguli@fromru.com> Re: RESPONSE NEEDED....

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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:
- "hundred thousand us 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.

Fraud email example:

From: "\"From: \"Mrs.P\"\"" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mpaula@blumail.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 22:13:24 -0000
Subject: Re: RESPONSE NEEDED....

Dear Sir,

My name is Mrs. P.Cheffe, I work for a diamond company in London, UK. There is a product my company needs from UAE. The product is our major raw material which we use for

the manufacturing of our Diamond Jewelries, we buy a gram of the product for $580usd from dealers in London, Recently I discovered a dealer in UAE through a friend in Botswana

that offered me a gram of the product for $380usd and quality is the same, I offered my company $500 per gram and they are very happy to buy 20kg.

Our personal profit in 20kg of the product is $2.400.000.00 (two million four hundred thousand US Dollars).I am contacting you because the purchasing manager of our company

will be traveling to UAE for the purchase of the materials in few weeks time. You will act as the middle marketer between the main UAE Dealers of this product and our company

here in London, in the sense that you will buy this product from the main dealers at the rate of $380/per gram and sell to our companies PM at the rate of $500 per gram after I have

introduced you to our company's PM as the main dealer of this product, and also given you the main dealer's contact in UAE for you to contact them and know the availability of the

product in their stock for now.

My Company is presently running out of stock of this material. If you are interested and promise to be honest with me in this business please do get in contact with me so that we

can reach an agreement on how to share the profit margin. I only want you to assure me that you will be honest with me, and also keep this business secret between both of us, So

that our company will not realize my personal interest on this transaction, because if they do, I will loss my job and also my career will be jeopardized.

I will give you more details about the business upon your reply to my email and I will also guide you through to the success of the transaction.

Hope to be hearing from you soonest.

Regards.

Mrs. P.Cheffe

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