419 scam: "chris melow"<melow.chris@yahoo.com.ph> PROPOSAL

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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:
- ",000,000" (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 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.
- chrismelow@aol.com (AOL; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "chris melow" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <chrismelow@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:04:46 +0100
Subject: PROPOSAL

Attention Sir/Madam,

It is my pleasure to contact you today, it is also a privilege to disclose this important profit and benefiting transaction Deal to you, I will need your cooperation’s, confidentiality of correspondence and as well to follow my instruction in all I will say, I have not done a bad thing to see a good opportunity and disclose it to you, so that we can team together and enjoy the proceeds of the deal rather than watching this funds confiscate, but if you are not ready and interested to proceed with this deal just delete my proposal and never contact me back again.

Am a secret representative of late Mr. Saif al-Arab Gadhafi son of Libyan leader (Moammar Gadhafi), I became his aid on so many of his dealings and i prepare all agreement for him with all his international associate. The agreement was to protect my client’s interest with the opposite parties; my late client had a Crude Oil shipment from Libya to Accra Ghana to one of his associates there for selling. Furthermore After the shipment was offloaded a deal was struck and my client was paid the sum $145,000,000.00 Dollars cash for the supply and the funds are safely in the custody of an international organization which saif gadhfi is also a member. This happened recently before the untimely uprising in Libya, my client died in one of the Nato Air strike in Libya and it was so unfortunate but I pray that his soul rest in peace while we alive live on.

I want to present you to the organization as the beneficiary and partner to the late Saif al-Arab Gadhafi whom i am presenting me as his lawyer to stand and make the claim of my late client’s funds. So I am here to work hand in hand with you so that I can present you to the organization to enable them process and release the funds to you as an allied to Saif and we shall share in the ratio of 50/50. On confirmation of the funds in your custody. I am not a greedy man all I need is for us to receive this fund successfully without involving greedy and back stabbers into it.

All paper works will be handled professionally so as not to violate any financial regulations. Kindly get back to me if you are interested for further details of this deal.

I wait to hear from you. I am currently in Ghana in my search for a trusted and reliable person that can handle this deal and if you indicate good interest then i will stop any further contacts with any other person.

Regard,
Chris Melow.

chrismelow@aol.com

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