419 scam: Andrew Daniel <kcdpe@tin.it> Waiting to hear from you (Urgent).

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +22996663476 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
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.
- mr.daniel34@yahoo.com.ph (Yahoo, Philippines, Philippines; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: Andrew Daniel <kcdpe@tin.it>
Reply-To: danieldeyon@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:47:59 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Waiting to hear from you (Urgent).

Greetings!

After much consideration on this matter, I have decided to contact you believing that you will protect this transaction and give it the attention it deserves, I am pleased to be in contact with you, I am a senior management staff of a regional Bank here in Republic (DU) Benin.

I would like to know if we can work mutually in partnership. I would like us to collaborate in sending supportive correspondence to our office as a beneficiary to a deceased client in this bank who made a huge fixed deposit sum united sate (US) dollars to our bank, with a comprehensive & accurate directives I shall be giving you internally from our office to archive a successful claim of this deposit, the departed man is from your region, he died and did not leave any registered relative designate in his account profile with our office and as such his funds now have an open beneficiary mandate for anybody with accurate information of the man as written in his account data with our office which i will make available to you on request.

Honestly, I seek your able partnership for us to join hands together and claim it successfully and i promise to guide you professionally but secretly on information which might be required of you from our bank in a most discreet manner, for us to claim fund for our personal disbursement, It may curious you to know that every aspect of security in this operation has been thoroughly taken care of, Please do let me know if you are interested so that I can give you details regarding the steps to take towards maximizing this great opportunity to secure our future financially,

I shall be expecting your favorable retort through my personal email (mr.daniel34@yahoo.com.ph) or you call me on +229-96663476.

Sincerely,
Mr. Andrew Daniel.

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