419 scam: "FAVOUR"<SEKkai@live.jp> Re: Please, get back

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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:
- "million dollars" (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.

Fraud email example:

From: "FAVOUR" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mailinfo6@qq.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 08:49:39 -0700
Subject: Re: Please, get back

Hi,

As an account's officer to Mr. Martin Wright a citizens of your Country who died with his wife and their only Child in car crash along sagbama express way of Delta state which left the whole occupant of the car dead,

I received a confiscation notice from our management(Union Bank) to either present any member of the family to claim his Estate and deposits worth US$5.6Million Dollars. Having checked his account papers and noticed that, he did not indicate any particular person as his next of kin, I decided to write you than, stand to lose this fund to our Banks treasury.

This may be difficult to reverse if, eventually, it goes into the treasury. This is why i want to seek your understanding to present you as an extended family member, this fund will be repatriated back to you through and easy means of payment that is, through ATM Card which, you will receive and start withdrawing,. I have every paper work that may be required from you by our bank.

If, you may want to be charitable with this fund, it will be after you might have received it then, you may decide on which charity home you would send it to or, you may invest this fund so that it can yield more fund like the parable of the talent .

Just get back to me as soon as possible for an official application in respect to this claim

.

Regards,

Thomas Duke

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