419 scam: "Good Day,We Need Your Business Assistance" <dh@biz.net> Good Day,We Need Your Business Assistance

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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.
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.
- davhughuk@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Good Day,We Need Your Business Assistance" <dh@biz.net>
Reply-To: davhughuk@aim.com
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:57:35 +0200
Subject: Good Day,We Need Your Business Assistance

Hello,

I am Mr.David Hughes,the Regional bank Supervisor of the Capital One Bank UK.

I'm contacting you for a Business which I want to execute with you, I assure you that this transaction
is real and risk free,and as such,you are not going to regret it.I only hope that we can assist each other.

I and my Manager have agreed to contact you on this financial transaction that will benefit 3 of us.

We discovered the sum of Eleven Million Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand GBPound
[11, 750.000.00] in my bank,which I will give you the full picture of how it was made as soon as
I get your Response.

Now,We have since placed this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As officials,We[I and My Manager] of the bank,can not be directly connected to this fund,
So we decided to contact you to work with us in order to assist and receive this fund into your
bank account.

Mean While you will have 35% of the total fund for your assistance,60% for us here,while 5% will be
set aside for any expenses incurred during the transaction.

If you accept this offer to work with us,We will need your immediate response to avoid us looking
for another partner.

I will give you details as soon as I get your response.
Reply through the following email address: davhughuk@aim.com

Best Regards
Mr.David Hughes.
Email: davhughuk@aim.com

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