419 scam: "China Citic Bank"<deng1_citic@163.com> WE WANT TO KNOW IF YOU ASK MRS JOYCE D. GILL TO REPRESENT 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!

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 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.
- li_citic@163.com (163; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "China Citic Bank" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <li_citic@163.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 10:06:09 +0100
Subject: WE WANT TO KNOW IF YOU ASK MRS JOYCE D. GILL TO REPRESENT YOU.??? .

China Citic Bank
Fund Manager,
ASIA PACIFIC.
Ref: Remittance of (USD$7,000.000,00)million

Attention:Beneficiary,

We received an instruction from our fund portfolio department of our correspondence bank to transfer the sum of USD$7,000.000,00 million into your account which we were proceeding as to communicate you and get you informed about the new development so that you can timely and officially transfer your fund via online into your regular account with our bank in your country by yourself to avoid any complication or delay.The fund generated from our escrow
account in our bank.

Surprisingly this morning, we received an email from Mrs JOYCE D.GILL who claimed to be your representative and forwarded the following account information to our office demanding us to transfer the fund into her account.

These are details of the bank account she provided to our office.

Bank of America
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Mrs. Mrs.JOYCE D. GILL
Account# 003767127210
Routing # 063170399
68 Jabotinsky St\#4
Ramat Gan, ISRAEL 546567
Do let us know vividly as a matter of urgency if actually this lady has your permission to receive your fund or on the contrary never your representative, you are officially requested to fill and send the underlisted details correctly as soon as possible for verification purpose and for the immediate and speedy processing of your fund.

1. YOUR FULL NAME..........................
2. YOUR TELEPHONE......
3. FAX......................
4. AGE...........
5. SEX........................... .........
6. YOUR OCCUPATION.................... ............
7. YOUR ADDRESS....................... .
8. BANK DETAILS WERE YOUR FUND WILL BE TRANSFER INTO....
HOWEVER, WE SHALL PROCEED TO ISSUE ALL PAYMENT DETAILS TO THE SAID Mrs JOYCE D.gill.

IF WE DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU WITHIN THE NEXT SEVEN WORKING DAYS FROM TODAY, WE WILL PROCESS AND RELEASE THE FUND INTO

HER BANK ACCOUNT.

Email our office via: li_citic@163.com

Yours in Service,

Mr.Shi li

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