419 scam: "Mr Collin Dean"<msft122@gmail.com> DONATION NEWS FOR YOU(REPLY)()

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

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Collin Dean" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <c0_dean@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:29:01 +0100
Subject: DONATION NEWS FOR YOU(REPLY)()

Hello Dear,

My Name is Mr Collin Dean, (PA) To the Bayford, who won 148.6m British Pounds in the Euro-millions jackpot on the 10.08.12 and have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of 1,000,000.00m GBP to you as part of Their own ( Gillian and Adrian Bayford ) charity project to improve the lot of 25 lucky individuals all over the world.

On the receipt of this email, you should count yourself as one of the lucky individuals/recipients. More so, do get back to me so that we can send your details to the payout bank.

Kindly visit the web pages below for further verification.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/back-page/what-lottery-millionaires-do-next-1.1408298#comments_start

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2211312/Lottery-winner-Adrian-Bayford-returned-work-weeks-scooping-jackpot-buys-Ford-Kuga.html?ITO=1490

You are advised to keep this as top secrete because they have been facing a lot of pressures from people in and outside the UK for help since this news. So this donation is out of their love for God and Human. They do not want to make this public. You will find this information on the web pages above.

Regards,
Mr Collin Dean,
For
Gillian and Adrian Bayford

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