419 scam: "Fredrick Elliot"<freddelliot@aol.com> Good Day

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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:
- "huge sum of money" (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)
- "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "your humble assistance" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
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.
- barrfredelliot55@aol.com (AOL; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Fredrick Elliot" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barrfredelliot55@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:34:15 +0200
Subject: Good Day

Good Day

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as i have been reliably informed of its swiftness and confidentiality. Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. My name are Mr. Fredrick Elliot, I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves a huge sum of money deposited in a Financial Institution in Malaysia, but now transfer to Netherlands, if this is truly of me, I remain my humble self " Barr. Fredrick Elliot.

In receipt to your profile, is a pleasure and also necessary to relate this issue before your hearing, my late Client (Mr. Dominic Dim Deng) was returning with a military delegation to the regional capital, Juba, from a political conference in the town of Wau on Friday, 2 May 2008, he should had being in (Juba) for a political era, so their plan clash and my Late Client die. See the website for confirmation,
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7380412.stm).

My aim of writing you this email now, is that My late Client should have being in Malaysia for a project on 4th night of these incident a project that worth the sum of ($25,500.000.00), Twenty Five Millions Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, deposited with a Financial Institution in Malaysia, now transfer to Netherlands, and he was expected to be Malaysia as soon as he return from juba because My client was a partner in Blue Chip and Construction companies, eventually this incident occurred. I need your humble assistance to retrieve my late Client funds from the Financial Institution into your care as we come over for investment as I can not come out for this fund being his personal Lawyer. All the documents of this money and is whereabouts is in my position, if this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of the trust i hope to bestow on you, then kindly get to me immediately via my e-mail address the below:

Your most confidential telephone
Your most confidential fax
Your most confidential e-mail address
Your Id either passport or identity card

Send them to my email address: bar. barrfredelliot55@aol.com so that I can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

Regards,
Barr. Fredrick Elliot
E-Mail: barr. barrfredelliot55@aol.com

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