419 scam: "Leonardo Ricardo"<breezealeux@pmc.com> Ref:Perfect Capital--(PMC)

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Leonardo Ricardo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <leeoricardo@rocketmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:49:15 +0800
Subject: Ref:Perfect Capital--(PMC)

Attention:

I got your contact during my personal search on internet and i was touched by faith to contact you for this fund claims proposal,How ever I am the finance Planning Consultant and Associate Director of Perfect Million Capital ,one of the World's Largest Funds management corporations , i handle all our investors Direct Capital Fund on Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit(EMRCP), this is been used for trading in Stock Market,Crude Oil and lending with Profit Returns.

Every Year, each Corporate Investor is expected to receive his/her Total Investment Capital Fund which i have presently extracted 29.8Million USD from the total ERMCP from various Investors and presently i cannot claim it without presenting some one as one of the investors in which all the documents to back up the claim shall be made available prior to your acceptance to stand as an investor .Please confirm your interest so i can include your name as one of the corporate investors that will receive their Annual Investment Proceeds for this month after the account balancing and auditing. We shall share the Proceeds equal when transferred into your designated bank account.

Confirm Your Interest by indicating Your contact Number for discussion of this offer in details .

Upon receiving of your response, I shall be forwarding to you the clarifications by briefing you more about the deal.

Best Regards,
Leonardo Ricardo
PMC Consultant

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