419 scam: private contact <private_contact222@yahoo.fr> Please Solve This If You Can

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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:
- "30% for you " (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)
- "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
- "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
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.
- +22506718025 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
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.
- david_kurlins11@yahoo.co.jp (Yahoo, Japan; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: private contact <private_contact222@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: david_kurlins11@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:16:25 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Please Solve This If You Can

Please Solve This If You
Can

       Urgent information

       From David Kurlins.

Felix avenue,Rue 12 plateux,


Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire

      Tel:+225
06718025

Dearest ,

I sourced your profile through a comprehensive web
search.

Please do not take this mail as a Junk mail, it is not, it is a serious matter that you will handle with your sincerity.

In
brief, my Name is David Kurlins a financial consultant here in my
country. I have a client at the sametime a nationality of yours that
lost his Wife and the only son in the Cuban Airliner that crashed on the
5th November 2010 killed 68 on board.

My client was an Engr by
profession, a loving father to his family and when he heard the news of
the Air Cuban
Crashed he slumbed down and was rushed to hospital but before he
died in the hospital he told his secretary to call me as his financial
advicer that I should try and locate his relations and hand them over
the documents of the funds which he deposited in a bank here in but if I
tried and could not locate any of his relations then I should WILL the
fund out to a God fearing person over seas who will use the fund to help
the Orphanages, Widows and Charitable homes and to mentain the house of
God over seas.

I have tried all I could as he
instructed me to locate his relations but all was in vain, now I have
made a random draw; your name and e-mail address was picked to be the
beneficiary to this Will believing really that he may be a relation of
yours which made me to contact you.

Please visit the site below for you to believe what I am
saying

http://www.mail.com/intl/Article.aspx/world/0/APNews/General-World-News/20101105/U_CB-Cuba-Plane-Crash?pageid=1

I
am particularly interested in securing this money from the bank where
he deposited the funds, because as his financial advicer if I fail to
produce the beneficiary of this Will within two months the money will be
credited into the Government treasury as the law here says.

I advice
you to contact me immediately with your full contact informations
through this Email address: david_kurlins11@yahoo.co.jp for us to work
together and get this fund transfer out from the deposited bank to your
account and you handle the fund as my client had said above.

You are hereby adviced to share the money in the following-

30% for you as the person mandated to do the work while 70% will now go for the Charitable homes as my client directed.

May the Almighty God bless you as you
do the work with the fear of God

information for further proceeding

Your Full Name

Your Telephone And Fax Numbers If Any fax

Your Current address

Your Age

Your Occupation

I am awaiting your urgent reply.

Yours Sincerely,

David Kurlins.

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