419 scam: "Susan William"<alan@bitterne.rigfone.co.uk> Compliment of the weekend,

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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.
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.
- susan.william84@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Susan William" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <susan.william84@yahoo.es>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:34:00 +0100
Subject: Compliment of the weekend,

Hello Dear ,

Compliment of the weekend,

I am Susan William from London; I work with Royal Bank of Scotland,

This letter is highly privileged, and it requires your immediate attention.

You are receiving this letter because your family name connected to a
deceased client Engr. Michael , who was a national of your country.

Engr. Michael was involved in a Plane clash with the wife and Three
children in 2003.

Egnr.Michael had a fixed-term Deposit with our bank which worth
4.7million Euros. Since the event of the Clash, none of his extended
family

has been located for the claim of this money. There is urgent need to
present a beneficiary to the bank for the claim of the inheritance.
The bank notified recent to their decision to declare the inheritance
to the government as their only option since there is no available kin
of the deceased to inherit the money.

Given to your nationality with Egnr. Michael ,I want to present you to

the bank as the beneficiary for the inheritance.

Forward me your full contact details via this my private email bellow
for more details, also we can discuses of your % OK.

(susan.william84@yahoo.es )

I look forward to your immediate response.

Kind Regards,

Susan William

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