419 scam: "Mr. Eric Jim Lee"<gtb@yahoo.com> YOUR DUE INHERITANCE FUND!!

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "insurance fee " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "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)
- "fund beneficiary" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- gtbbank68@yahoo.com.au (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Eric Jim Lee" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gtbbank68@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 19:31:31 -0000
Subject: YOUR DUE INHERITANCE FUND!!

GTB Bank Inheritance Payment

Payment Value: US$10,700,000.00 Dollars

Authorized Paying Bank: Guaranty Trust Bank Plc Nigeria

Transaction Reference Code: GTB/KTT/27890/00453/013

Payment Approval Date: 15/05/2013

Dear Email Owner/Fund Beneficiary,

We wish to let you know that everything concerning your ATM CARD payment dispatch is ready in this Office. And we have a meeting with the house (Federal High Airways Management Authority’s Nigeria) we informed them that your fund should not cost you anything because it is your (ATM CARD). Moreover, we have an agreement with them that you should pay only insurance fee for your ATM CARD, by the Courire Agency Company so that no agency will stop the ATM Debit Card till get to your located country.

However, you have only some days to comply with this, in order the insurance to delivery your Card to your loceted said address, if we don’t hear from you within some days with the ahead meting Role by the Federal Approved Remittance Funds will terminate and cancel the ATM Card, hereby, the appointed valid $10.7M USD will be transferred to the government treasury as on clam funds.

Kindly reconfirm your full date’s information’s to avoid wrong delivery, your full name and address including you cell phone for easy communication and confirmations.

I wait your response before I availed to you the Courier dispating name which we immediately out conceine your disptich by the said ATM package, hereby to enable them proceed delivering of your Electronic ATM Debit Master Card your located State Country.

Note: In any case of delay in the cause of this delivery, kindly keep me posted through direct to my official e-mail id Mr. Eric Jim Lee: box: ( gtbbank68@yahoo.com.au )

Thanks

Mr. Eric Jim Lee

NEW GTBANK PAYMASTER

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