419 scam: "NLP Remit"<zb@phzx.net> Re:Check Problem with your Balance Remittance

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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:
- "dear beneficiary," (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
- "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

Fraud email example:

From: "NLP Remit" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <peterkhalaf@admin.in.th>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:09:22 -0000
Subject: Re:Check Problem with your Balance Remittance

ATTENTION:

Dear Beneficiary,

As per your details which was announced in the National Lottery Draw on 21/NOV/2012 to claim to total sum of $1,350,000 USD with the following winning details below:

The winning numbers: ......................... 01 09 11 20 40 01 05
Lot Number: .......................... 389 773
REF. NUMBER: ...................... UKNL479202746545A2012

We confirmed that you asked the National Lottery Agent to have some of your information changed before remitting payment to you and during this process you referred us to pay all your winnings to one Mrs. Zara Mansur whom you introduced as your cousin and next of kin since you are ill and admitted in the hospital for prostrate cancer as explained to us by Mrs. Mansur.

Mrs. Zara Mansur has ordered the total payment of your winning to be cleared from the HSBC Bank account which was opened in your name to enable you access your fund via internet banking service which will enable you to make transfer of funds and pay bills any time you wish.
Here she has instructed the National Lottery to send her an ATM Card which she can use to withdraw funds for your urgent treatment and so we did send the card by DHL Courier service after she agreed to pay double freight charges of $452 USD because stop order was placed on the parcel as she later informed us that you are being referred to an hospital in Bahrain for surgery and other medications and the parcel was immediately directed to Bahrain for your sake.

Please find DHL tracking detail.
(DHL tracking number: 5169372633)
Delivered to Bahrain: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 09:34
Signed for by: JACOB

Ever since the bank has alerted us that the total sum of $205,799 USD has been withdrawn from different ATM branches in Jebel Ali, Rak and Dubai and various location in Bahrain. Remaining to total balance of $1,143,970 USD.

Our team has investigated thoroughly in this matter and has found an unauthorized third party has been tampering your identity and we have signaled the HSBC Bank to restrict all access of withdrawal from your account until proper clearance about you has been figured out.

Please let us know what is going on and if the withdrawal transaction has been performed by you or Mrs. Mansur or by another party whose identity is disclosed to us and email us a copy of letter in PDF to announce the clearance of this problem.

You only have 72 Hours to confirm this error to avoid the remaining balance in your winning account liquidated.

Waiting for your reply/action.

Sincerely,

Jersey Brian
Finance & Operations Director of the National Lottery

For: National Lottery Remittance Dept.

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