419 scam: "SWIFT RESPONSE"<daniel@coopfrench.com.ar> swift response

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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "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.
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.
- cole_bagnamaninvestment@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SWIFT RESPONSE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <cole_bagnamaninvestment@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:07:28 +0100
Subject: swift response

Dear Friend,

Greetings! I have contacted you for this huge business opportunity which will benefit our respective persons, this is typically business. My name is Mr.Scott William; I am the assistant production officer in my company .Our company is into production of Pharmaceutical Products and mainly Animal Vaccines in Ghana and North Africa. There is an Herbal Roots that our company needs urgently for the production of Animal Vaccines drugs.
Our company is in desperate search of this Herbal Roots for the manufacturing of our animal drugs which i stated above and this Root is only produced in India. Our company had a foreign procurement officer who normally go to India to purchase the Herbal Roots from the local Indian farmers and supply to my company at very high price, but unfortunately our company lost the procurement officer as he died some few months ago leaving no trace of the local Herbal Roots dealer contact to my company.

My company is desperately in need of this Root urgently, my company buys this Herbal Roots in large quantity because of our production capacity and the company is willing to purchase about 50000 sachets of this Root once it is found available to buy. The local Indian dealers use to sell the Herbal to our late procurement officer at the rate of $100 USD (RS 5500 INR )for one sachet and my company director pays our late purchasing officer $450 USD (RS 24750 INR )per each sachet, you can imagine how much the procurement officer was profiting.
TOP SECRET: I personally have the contact details of the India local dealer where our procurement officer used to purchase the Herbal Roots in India because he mistakenly misplaced his wallet in my office and i found the dealers contact from one of the receipts which was issued to him when he last went to purchase the Roots from the India farmers. As an employee to this company, it is against the policy of the company for me to get involved in such business and i really want to have my own share from this business that is why i have contacted you.
If you are interested and capable to handle this business smoothly, kindly reply my mail for more details. We discuss more on this matter and then i forward to you the Indian local dealer contact details and my company director contact detail and present you to my company and director as the new person to immediately supply us the needed Roots. Reply me with this email address (cole_bagnamaninvestment@hotmail.co.uk)

Awaiting your urgent reply

Regards,

Mr.Cole Bagnaman

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