419 scam: "MANAGING PARTNER"<ccm@tvcabo.co.mz> MANAGING PARTNER

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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:
- "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 next of kin scam.
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.
- +447438548094

Fraud email example:

From: "MANAGING PARTNER" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lawfirmuk@frederick-smith.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 00:42:32 +0100
Subject: MANAGING PARTNER

MANAGING PARTNER
Frederick Smith ,ESQ.
85 Fleet Street, City of London,
United Kingdom

NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST
On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr.
Blakes Paulson;I once again try to notify you as my earlier
letter returned undelivered.

I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address on the
WILL. I wish to notify you that late Engr. Blakes Paulson
made you a beneficiary to his WILL. He left the sum of Ten Million One
Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD$10,100,000.00 ) to you in the codicil
and last testament to his WILL.

This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and
true. Being a widely traveled man, he must have been in contact with
you in the past or simply you were recommended to him by one of his
numerous friends abroad who wished you good. Engr. Blakes Paulson
until his death was a member of the Helicopter Society and the
Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers. He had a very good
heart and loved to give out.

His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during his life
time. Late Engr. Blakes Paulson died on the 23rd day of
January ,2006 at the age of 78 years, and his WILL is now ready for
execution.

According to him this money is to support your humanitarian activities
and to help the poor and the needy in our society. Please if I reach
you this time as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as
possible to enable me conclude my job. Endeavor to reply to the email address
below for prompt response to your plight.

lawfirmuk@frederick-smith.com

Yours in Service,
Frederick Smith ,ESQ. (Principal Partner
Email. lawfirmuk@frederick-smith.com
Phone. Tel: +447438548094

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