419 scam: Bernard Otti <bernardotti538@yahoo.pt> ( Greatings to you )

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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!

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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 next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Bernard Otti <bernardotti538@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Bernard Otti <bern123a2@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:09:11 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: ( Greatings to you )

Hello

I amÂ Bernard Otti a Manger withÂ Eco bank Security Company . An oil merchandise and contractorÂ Eng. Omar AL-RAWI from Suudi ArabiaÂ made a fixed DepositedÂ of $50m million with our Security Company,Eco bank Security Company years back and at the time of maturity, I sent a letter of claim to his address but got no response, I then went there personally to know why there was no response to my letter which I found out that Eng. Omar AL-RAWI dead of cancer two years ago, I tried to locate Eng. Omar AL-RAWI family but was told that Eng. Omar AL-RAWI family left the country immediately after his death. Now if nobody come up as Eng. Omar AL-RAWIÂ next of kin for the claim of the deposited money which was loaded in a box,but the problem now is that at the end of the year, the deposited moneyÂ I will transfer to Government purse for confiscationÂ as unclaimed money but I wil not want such to happen because Eng. Omar AL-RAWIÂ was a very good friend. I am contacting you to stand as Eng. Omar AL-RAWI next of kin so I can move the loaded money in a box (consignment)Â to you as the next of kin to Eng. Omar AL-RAWI for us to share at 60% for me and 40% for you. If you will be interested let me know so I can tell what next we are to do .

My best regards.

Bernard Otti.

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