419 scam: Hassan amin <hassanamin_1011@msn.com> Dear friend.

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "huge amount of money" (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)
- "million 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)
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- hassanamin20@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Hassan amin <hassanamin_1011@msn.com>
Reply-To: <hassanamin20@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:39:23 +0000
Subject: Dear friend.

Dear friend.
CONFIDENTIAL
I would like you to help me in receiving this fund into your bank account, however. It's just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me contact you for this transaction. I am the manager of bill and exchange foreign remittance department of HSBC Bank here in Malaysia. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of (U.S. $ 4.2 million dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers is a reactors in France (Mr. Paul Louis in Paris France) who died along with his entire family in July 2003 in a plane crash on way to France.
I fear that if the money stays in our bank without claim for a long period of time, our government will intervene, because the banking laws here does not allow such a huge amount of money to remain idle for more than eight years. And get this money into your bank account within 10 or 14 days.
Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after eight years a higher level, the money is transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed funds. I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner in respect to the provision of a foreign account, and while 70% would be for me.
If you agree with my business proposal, further details of the transfer will be sent to you as soon as you receive your return mail. Be sure to keep this transaction as top secret and make it confidential until we receive the funds in the account to be provided to the Bank. Do not disclose to any body, because the secret of this operation and success of it, have a great day.
I need the following information: -1. Your full name:2. Age:3. Address:4. Telephone:5. Occupation
Please reply me immediatelyYours sincerely.
Email:hassanamin20@yahoo.com
Dr,Hassan Amin.

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