419 scam: <elihend@mail.kz> Mrs. Helene Stearns (LLP)

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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:
- "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: <elihend@mail.kz>
Reply-To: <helenestearns@ovi.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:43:28 +0100
Subject: Mrs. Helene Stearns (LLP)

Greetings!
I am interested in establishing and operating a viable business as a means of investment in your country, I am proposing property investment project, to formally introduce myself, am the Mrs. Helene Stearns (LLP), a personal attorney to my late client Mr. Levi Ajuonuma (Group General Manager, Corporate Affairs of NNPC) who died with other passengers on board in Dana Air Plane Crash in Nigeria, 03/06/2012 18:43:00. Click below to view the list of all the names of 153 passengers of the ill-fated Dana Air Flight. (http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/latest-addition/167632-list-of-passengers-on-the-dana-plane-crash-in-nigeria.html).

I wish to know if we can work together. I would like you to stand as the next of kin to my late client who has an account valued US$6.8Million, with a financial institute here in Abuja,Nigeria. He died without any registered next of kin and as such the funds now have an open beneficiary mandate.The board of directors of his Bank adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of this money or forfeit the money to the Bank as an abandoned property. Fortunately, it will be very easy for me to make you become his official next of kin because I am his personal properties and investments lawyer. If you are interested, do let me know so that I can give you a comprehensive details on what we are to do, for your assistance in handling the project, we will map out certain amount for your personal use from the deposit. If you got this email please call me 00234-8181322505 ASAP, E-mail: helenestearns@ovi.com

Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Helene Stearns (LLP)
NNPC Towers, Central Business District,
Herbert Macaulay Way,
P.M.B. 190, Garki, Abuja.Nigeria
www.nnpcgroup.com

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