419 scam: "MR.HOPE A.NICHOLAS" <hopeeaamenn@rocketmail.com> RE:WHERE DO WE WIRE YOUR FUND?

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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:
- ",500,000" (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.
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.
- hopeaamenn@accountant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR.HOPE A.NICHOLAS" <hopeeaamenn@rocketmail.com>
Reply-To: amend.hope@accountant.com
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:20:23 -0500
Subject: RE:WHERE DO WE WIRE YOUR FUND?

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Hong Leong Bank
no 4 jln ros,kampung melayu,
86000 kluang johor,malaysia

Good Day,

This is to remind you that your fund USD$3.5M has been approved for
payment. We
are contacting you to re-confirm your account coordinates, so that we
will NOT make wrong transfer of your fund and we would not be held liable
due to wrong disbursement of your fund.

However we received an email from one Mr.Robert Hutchison-Penman Flat
2 87 Gladstone Road,Wimbledon,
who told us that his is your next of kin.

His has also submitted his account informations to the office department
for transfer of the fund payment credit to his as your inheritor of the
fund stated herein . We are now verifing by contacting your email address
as we have in our Bank records before we can make the transfer into his
account. In your reply confirmation to my office if he is your next of kin,As
soon as we confirm from you we shall forward to him the payment
information stated below:

This account information below was presented to us by Mr.Robert
Hutchison-Penman where he would want the fund of USD$3,500,000.00 to be
transferred into:

Does this account belongs to you?

Banking information.
Lloyds TSB Bank.
Merton London
Account Number 71045868
Account Name Robert Hutchison-Penman
Sort Code 77 30 02
IBAN GB46LOYD77300271045868
BIC LOYDGB21W06

Let us know as soon as possible if you are the one that gave the approval
and the authorization to transfer your fund into the said account. Looking
forward to hearing from you. Contact me urgently and to re-confirm your
information to me through my personnel EMAIL(hopeaamenn@accountant.com)

Thanks,
Yours Faithfully
MR.HOPE A.NICHOLAS

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