419 scam: "Richard Andrew Lamb"<richardlamb277@gmail.com> UBS Investment bank transaction

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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:
- ",500,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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 next of kin scam.
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.
- richardlamb013@yahoo.co.jp (Yahoo, Japan; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Richard Andrew Lamb" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <richardlamb013@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 07:12:52 +0200
Subject: UBS Investment bank transaction

Information Department
UBS Investment bank
1 Golden Lane
London, EC1Y 0RR
BIC: UBSWGB2L

Dear Customer

I am Richard Andrew Lamb, a financial accountant here in U.K. I am the account officer to the deceased, your nationality, who was till his death a Contractor with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)herein U.K. Hereinafter shall be referred to as my customer.

On the 21st of April 2011, my client, his wife and their only daughter were involved in a fire outbreak in their residence. All the family members unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy here to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the fund valued at L15,500,000.00 (Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds) left behind by my customer in an account here in UBS Investment bank before it gets Confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge amount were deposited. The said Finance Company has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next twenty - one official working days. For the fact that I have been unsuccessful in locatin!
g the relatives for over a year no

I will provide the necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for the claim. All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law both in your country and that of the United Kingdom.

Contact me on my direct email address richardlamb013@yahoo.co.jp

Best regards,
Richard Andrew Lamb

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