419 scam: MR ALFRED RICHARD <alfred-richard@hotmail.com> URGENT BUSINESS......

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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)
- "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447024066080 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: MR ALFRED RICHARD <alfred-richard@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: richardfred11@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:31:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS......

Hello,

Greetings to you and your family. My name is Mr Alfred Richard, the Assistant Sales Manager of Hatton Jewelry Co. at Hatton Garden London. Our company has been recognized for manufacturing high quality Golden and Silver Earrings, Pendants and Necklace style Rings Jewelries by name DIAMOND MIXTURE.

As a specialist jewelry manufacturing company, we needs raw material by name diamond mixture which we used for the manufacturing of our company products we buy a gram of Diamond Mixture $680 from dealers here in London, recently I discovered a supplier in Middle East that offered me a gram $345 and quality is the same, I offered my company $500 per gram and they are very happy to buy 5kg.

My personal profit in 5kg is $700.000.00 (Seven hundred thousand US Dollars). I am contacting you because my manager will be traveling to UAE for the purchase of these materials in few days time.

Now I want You to act as the middle marketer between the main Dealers of this product in UAE and our company here in London in the sense that you will buy this product from the main dealers at the rate of US$345/per gram and sell to our company at the rate of US$500/per grams after I might have introduced you to our company as the main dealer, and also given you the main dealer's contact in Middle East for you to contact them to know the availability of the product in their stock.

You will met our purchasing manager on his arrival to Middle East UAE, or he will give you a call on his arrival to UAE then you will take him to his hotel and show him the materials to convince him you are the dealer, after that you will go and purchase the rest from the main dealer, bring the product to his hotel, or you take him to your office and collect cash from him, finish. You extract our profit and take your money back to where you bring it. Itâ€™s a day transaction.

My Company is presently running out of stock of this product. If you are interested and promise your honesty in this business please do get in touch with me so that we can reach into an agreement on how to share this $700.000.00 (Seven hundred thousand US Dollars) profit.

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 that I connived with you to inflate the price of the product for my own interest because if they do, as I say, I will loss my job and also my career will be jeopardized. I will tell you more things about this business if I find you are interested in doing this business and I will also guide you to the success of it.

Best Regards,
Mr. Alfred Richard
London U.K
Tel: +447024066080

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